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iamnotaparakeet
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06 Mar 2008, 12:12 pm

I got an idea from PPR for a thread. From this,

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iamnotaparakeet wrote:

That pretty much would be part of transhumanistic philosophy. What I really don't get is "why colonize Mars?" other than a publicity stunt it wont prove much. Go ahead though, move from one (according to some) soon-to-be-dead planet to an already-dead planet. If we ever find a habitable planet it will probably be so many light years out of our reach to be impractical to go there.

Colonizing Mars would be a first step in colonizing the rest of the solar system, which is rich in resources to exploit once we have the technology. Colonizing other worlds also offers a new source of cultural and societal diversity to off-set the increasing degree of cultural homogenization on earth. Colonies would also give utopian types, from Marxists to Libertarians to Anarchists to religious communities the chance to try out their ideas so people can see if their ideas have merit of are just unworkable BS.

I think we should claim planets and celestial bodies for ourselves or groups to which we belong.

I claim Earth for Christianity!

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06 Mar 2008, 12:21 pm

I claim Saturn for myself.

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06 Mar 2008, 12:29 pm

The Sun i dont think i'd live there though :lol:

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06 Mar 2008, 12:30 pm

I claim Eris for an aspie-only colony, we will be alone, and with almost no gravity most sensory problems would be eliminated.

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06 Mar 2008, 12:32 pm

I claim Venus

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06 Mar 2008, 12:36 pm

Nico, you stole mine. Alright I claim Mars since it almost looks there could be life on it. In the past, there was a scare by Orson Welles that there were ppl from Mars attacking us. It was just a story he was doing, but when ppl turned it on, they thought it was a news broadcast. A lot of hysteria went on.

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06 Mar 2008, 12:40 pm

Earth's Moon, for fans of The Mighty Boosh.

Neil Armstrong, walking on me face
Buzz Aldrin, he walkin on me face
And the the third one, he's a spaceman, a-walking on me face
All on de surfaces,
And a-lookin at all da stuff, dat da moons got to offer

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06 Mar 2008, 12:40 pm

How many small moons could I have in exchange for giving up my planet rights? I mean, ya know, I'll want a change of pace and change of scene once in a while, and also the ability to get in my spaceship and fly to my other properties for vacations. (I believe in diversifying whenever possible.)

I could even leave certain animals on each moon as pets. I could have the parrot moon, the dog moon, and the horse moon, and then just the "me" moon, so that I can be alone as the Aspie that I am.

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06 Mar 2008, 12:41 pm

Aridarr wrote:

Earth's Moon, for fans of The Mighty Boosh.

Claimed it already: http://www.wrongplanet.net/posts58508-start150.html
Get your own moon(s).

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06 Mar 2008, 12:43 pm

He's so bright and milky white!
Shining down upon the ground!
He's so bright, Milky white!
Shining down upon the ground!
Everybody look at the moon!
Everyone seen the moon!
The Moon is bright, it's milky white!
Everybody look at The Moon! Huh!!

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06 Mar 2008, 12:45 pm

Aridarr wrote:

Earth's Moon, for fans of The Mighty Boosh.

Neil Armstrong, walking on me face
Buzz Aldrin, he walkin on me face
And the the third one, he's a spaceman, a-walking on me face
All on de surfaces,
And a-lookin at all da stuff, dat da moons got to offer

I luv that show The Mighty Boosh. Most ppl don't know what I'm talking about when I mention it.

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06 Mar 2008, 12:48 pm

Aridarr wrote:

Earth's Moon, for fans of The Mighty Boosh.

I love The Mighty Boosh! It's almost an institution at the college I go to.

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06 Mar 2008, 12:51 pm

Anyone seen that silent film from 1915 of Man on the Moon?

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06 Mar 2008, 12:52 pm

I would also like to have Phobos.

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06 Mar 2008, 12:54 pm

I'll claim Gallifrey if I can't have at least five small moons. Tardises included, please.

Or actually, give me the "Earth, Mark II" from "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy."

HA! How about that? I get an Earth that's BRAND NEW, baby! All environmental and political problems gone!

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06 Mar 2008, 1:01 pm

I claim the Galilean moons, they aren't very big, so Ill take the four of them. then I will build bridges between them and make the coolest civilization ever. There I will build my Camelot.

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