You Can't Coach That

Even more water on Mars - So What!

Just read on the Digg front page that there is even more water on Mars in the polar ice cap than first thought. While this might indeed be exciting news for those in the science field and others interested in the area, I say big f***ing deal.

Mine may not be a particularly popular opinion and I admit that I am not particularly well educated in this area but how does this affect me? For that matter how does this affect anybody here on our rapidly filling world? Where I live we are in the middle of the worst drought on record. There are real threats to our supply of drinking water and we are being forced to make long overdue changes to the way we use water. Of course this is nothing compared to others in the third world (can one still use that term in the age of political correctness?) who are drinking contaminated water or have none at all.

So unless they can send a rocket to Mars and bring back some of that water held in the polar ice cap I don’t really give a stuff. I suggest that the money spent on finding out that there is water on Mars would be much better spent here on planet earth making the lives of some of the less fortunate a little better.

“You can’t coach that”

Coach - you are missing the big picture here.  Now that we know there is more water here, we can send Arnold Schwarzenegger there and he can set off the chain reaction to melt the polar ice caps and create an “Earth-like” oxygenated atmosphere.  Hey - that sounds like a good idea for a movie doesn’t it?

You aren’t thinking fourth-dimensionally…

while our usable water supply gets lower and lower, and out planet gets less and less inhabitable, we can design a scheme to go terraform Mars, so that we can destroy that planet too.

Oh my goodness, I can’t even respond to the other comments and I can’t say anything better.