For part #1 with explanation see here.
"The Victorians and aliens
The Victorian era was a time of crazy inventions and out-of-this-world discoveries. In fact, even then they firmly believed that there simply had to be life on Mars. Thanks to the Italian astronomer Giovanni Schiaparelli, their beliefs were supported when he claimed to have seen artificial waterways on Mars through his telescope.
The Victorian era was a time of crazy inventions and out-of-this-world discoveries. In fact, even then they firmly believed that there simply had to be life on Mars. Thanks to the Italian astronomer Giovanni Schiaparelli, their beliefs were supported when he claimed to have seen artificial waterways on Mars through his telescope.
These channels were supposedly signs of intelligent life and advanced systems created by aliens for travel or trade. The Victorians believed this and many made rather large contributions to mad science causes that claimed to make contact with aliens. In 1886 the first car was built, so you could say they were pretty close."
And today? We still waste money to try to get there instead of using it to fight cancer, for example... or... save this world...
5 comments:
Maybe this world can only be saved if a lot of people move to another planet because there are too many of us on this one and we have already destroyed so much of it. But then the same would eventually happen on any other planet too.
Yes to the latter - the same would happen again!!!!
Condoms are a (one) solution, I think!
We have ads on TV showing starving African kids, asking us to give money (expensive ads at prime time).
No. PREVENT women who do not want (more) kids to have to have them!
EDUCATION!
Not Mars. Science for us HERE. NOW. Time´s up soon. Or... well, life will adapt... without the human race?
...things may not be perfect here, but I don't want to go to Mars!
Earth is home!
Truth! Never have understood the urge for space travel.
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