This is huge: *current* liquid water on Mars.

[trdsf]

I'd volunteer to go in a heartbeat, even if it meant I'd never make it back to Earth.

I'm with you.  I'd go to Mars even if it's a one-way trip.  Every corner you turn, every rock you pick up, every single moment there would be a new discovery for humanity.  The only thing I'd hate to leave behind is my cat.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

"Everywhere I go, I'm the first. Shit under this rock, first to do that." Mark Watney's Unpublished Journal.

[Cavebear]

I'm with you.  I'd go to Mars even if it's a one-way trip.  Every corner you turn, every rock you pick up, every single moment there would be a new discovery for humanity.  The only thing I'd hate to leave behind is my cat.

"Here Jonesie"...

;)

[Gawdzilla Sama]

"Here Jonesie"...

;)

Just pictured trdsf in a tank top and bikini panties.

I'll be at a monastery if you need me.

[Cavebear]

Just pictured trdsf in a tank top and bikini panties.

I'll be at a monastery if you need me.

Just don't tell Munch, LOL!  He might stop breathing...

[Unbeliever]

Just pictured trdsf in a tank top and bikini panties.

Damn, now I'm picturing Young Frankenstein in a tank top and bikini panties...ouch!

[Cavebear]

Damn, now I'm picturing Young Frankenstein in a tank top and bikini panties...ouch!

Well, just don't think of The Blob in a ...  Oh damn, NOW I've done it...

[SGOS]

I think this thread got derailed.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Bikini panties do that for me.

[trdsf]

Well, just don't think of The Blob in a ...  Oh damn, NOW I've done it...

Alas, I'm rationalist enough that I have to admit you're closest to the reality of the matter here...

[Cavebear]

Alas, I'm rationalist enough that I have to admit you're closest to the reality of the matter here...

Well, spandex and the Blob don't really go together in MY mind...  But ask Munch.

[ferdmonger]

Yerp. They'd squish us and set the dolphins up with robotic arms. (And you read The Dolphins of Pern?)

But realistically, if they checked on Earth every billion years and found cyanobacteria the dominant life form, they'd be back in about 600,000,000 years for another look. Distant descendants of racoons would meet them just outside Neptune's orbit, to explain that they didn't do that.

I'm still a newbie here and trying to catch up to some of the forums, but this one killed me.

When interviewed on how they survived and humans faltered, the raccoons said, "Shit, we're raccoons.  We'll eat anything."

[Baruch]

Raccoons are very clever, they can use their little hands.  Very Trump.

[Cavebear]

I'm still a newbie here and trying to catch up to some of the forums, but this one killed me.

When interviewed on how they survived and humans faltered, the raccoons said, "Shit, we're raccoons.  We'll eat anything."

Well, among a few sci-books proposing non-human critters, I always thought both raccoons and bears were overlooked.  Racoons for handiness and bears for bipedal possibilities.  It might be an instructive challenge.  "Breed To Come' suggested cats for curiosity but I think they are too specialized as carnivores.

[Baruch]

Well, among a few sci-books proposing non-human critters, I always thought both raccoons and bears were overlooked.  Racoons for handiness and bears for bipedal possibilities.  It might be an instructive challenge.  "Breed To Come' suggested cats for curiosity but I think they are too specialized as carnivores.

Cats like to keep their spare food supply close ... that is why they check you out.