Life On Mars?

[Guest]

If there is intelligent life on Mars, it will avoid us like the plague.

If there is oil on Mars, we'll invade.

If there is un-intelligent life on Mars, we'll elect it to office.

 

[Boxlicker101]

If there is intelligent life on Mars, it will avoid us like the plague.

If there is oil on Mars, we'll invade.

If there is un-intelligent life on Mars, we'll elect it to office.

We would not be able to elect it president or veep unless it was a natural born citizen. That means if it hatched from an egg or grew from a seed, etc. it would not be eligible even if we annexed Mars to the US.

 

[Quiet_Cool]

The next step for Carol Stoke and Larry Lemke, in light of their fantastic martian discovery, is to rename that planet Barsoom!

Then, if their earth mole has a fortuitous accident while exploring subterranean Rio Tinto, they will have nothing left to discover except the giant trees of Venus, and the hidden plateau in Africa where talking apes reside.

I live new WV. those talking apes... They've been accounted for.



Q_C

 

[Boxlicker101]

We would not be able to elect it president or veep unless it was a natural born citizen. That means if it hatched from an egg or grew from a seed, etc. it would not be eligible even if we annexed Mars to the US.

After posting this, I got to wondering. Assuming that Martians are born live, like mammals on Earth, and assuming Mars became a state or territory of the US, a Martian would still need to be 35 years old to be elected Pres. or Veep. Would that be Martian years or Earth years?

 

[rgraham666]

If it's Martian years, they'll be older than Reagan when he first got elected.

Don't blame me. I voted for Kodos.

 

[Guest]

We would not be able to elect it president or veep unless it was a natural born citizen. That means if it hatched from an egg or grew from a seed, etc. it would not be eligible even if we annexed Mars to the US.

Not President or VEEP maybe, but they could be elected lots of other places they could do harm.

 

[Boxlicker101]

Not President or VEEP maybe, but they could be elected lots of other places they could do harm.

To be elected to the Senate or the House, they would have to be residents of that particular state. The same would probably apply to being elected governor, mayor, city council members, members of state legislatures, dogcatchers or other elected offices. That would not be the big worry. The big worry would be that they could be appointed to cabinet posts or various state or federal judgeships. I don't believe there would be any restrictions on those positions.

 

[shereads]

WASHINGTON -- A pair of NASA scientists told a group of space officials at a private meeting here Sunday that they have found strong evidence that life may exist today on Mars, hidden away in caves and sustained by pockets of water.

Uh-oh. If it's intelligent, it's already planning our demise.

 

[shereads]

Who else thinks life on Mars has suffered under tyranny long enough, and is ready for the gift of Democracy?





"In the beginning, God created the universe. This is widely acknowleged to have been a bad idea." ~ Douglas Addams, The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy

 

[LadyJeanne]

Uh-oh. If it's intelligent, it's already planning our demise.

Can you blame them? Earthlings' invasion of Mars has already begun.

 

[shereads]

Can you blame them? Earthlings' invasion of Mars has already begun.

"...If you burn a soil sample and it produces carbon, that doesn't mean there's life on Mars. It means there was life on Mars and you killed it."

~ Lazlo Toth writing to NASA in "The Lazlo Letters"

 

[LadyJeanne]

"...If you burn a soil sample and it produces carbon, that doesn't mean there's life on Mars. It means there was life on Mars and you killed it."

~ Lazlo Toth writing to NASA in "The Lazlo Letters"

The very act of observation alters that which is being observed.

~ Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle

 

[Boxlicker101]

Uh-oh. If it's intelligent, it's already planning our demise.

Either that or it's going to continue hiding away in caves.

 

[R. Richard]

The expectation of life on Mars is limited to very low level life, perhaps at the bacteria stage. However, this does not mean that all hope for little green men (and women) is lost!

 

[Guest]

Those Rovers we sent to Mars are powered by solar panels. It was expected as the panels got dusty, the power produced would diminish. And that is what happened, until suddently power production increased.

Who cleaned those panels?

 

[Boxlicker101]

Those Rovers we sent to Mars are powered by solar panels. It was expected as the panels got dusty, the power produced would diminish. And that is what happened, until suddently power production increased.

Who cleaned those panels?

I understand that, as a rover was stopped at a traffic light, some wino with a spray bottle and a squeegee dashed out and did it, hoping to earn some money to buy wine. It was also reported that the wino was male, slender, of short stature and had green skin.