I wonder what the ecological movement on Mars will be. The Red movement? Will we dump co2 and iron into the environment to battle oxygen gasses?

haha, seriously though, just thinking of those 2 responses (we might have to use the bucket / we might think its possible with a bucket) just crack me up. Thanks for that guys.

“Ah, but a rugrat’s reach should exceed his grasp,
Or what’s a Heaven for?”

May we all stay rugrats at heart forever…….

Yeah, and it would be interesting to see the variations on the Moon Hoax Conspiracy over time and across the population:

1. We didn’t go to the Moon or Mars.

2. We went to the Moon but didn’t go to Mars.

3. We still didn’t go to the Moon in 1969, but now we have the technology, so we did actually go to Mars.

4. Conspiracy Theorists living on the Moon denying the Mars landing.

And in the future you could be having a conversation like this:

Conspiracy Theorist: “It’s impossible for humans to get to Mars.”

BA: “So where do those daily mining shipments come from?”

CT: “They are staged by the government to maintain the illusion.”

BA: “But your own mother lives on the northern rim of the Hella Impact Basin!”

CT: “My mother is part of the conspiracy too.”

BA: “… you can see her house from here with your backyard refracting neutrino-scope.”

CT: “Faked.”

BA: “Look, I’ve booked us a couple of tickets on the first Virgin Galactic flight to Olympus Mons Airport tomorrow.”

CT: “Ummm … dental appointment.”

Sam Seaborn: There are lots of hungry people in the world, Mall, and none of them are hungry because we went to the moon. None of them are colder and certainly none of them are dumber because we went to the moon.
Mallory O’Brian: And we went to the moon. Do we really have to go to Mars?
Sam Seaborn: Yes.
Mallory O’Brian: Why?
Sam Seaborn: Because it’s next. Because we came out of the cave, and we looked over the hill and we saw fire; and we crossed the ocean and we pioneered the west, and we took to the sky. The history of man is on a timeline of explorations and this is What’s next.

Incidentally, this is the first time I’ve commented on your blog…. I kept seeing your name pop up on Gia’s, and I’ve been following you on Twitter for a while (and, more recently, FriendFeed)