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    Titan's Drone Boat Could Be Joined By a Nuclear Hot-Air Balloon

    What's the Worst that Could Happen on a Fake Mission to Mars?

    A Nuclear-Powered Boat Could Sail The Great Lakes Of Titan

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    Image of Bootknife-Jackson Bootknife-Jackson
    11/15/09

    In reply to Titan's Drone Boat Could Be Joined By a Nuclear Hot-Air Balloon
    I am so excited about this mission! This and Europa! Oh man! I might need new space pants here, seriously! The only thing that would be cooler is a manned mission to Titan! But I don't think that's currently feasible.

    Also, has anyone made an Ethan Hawke joke yet? #saturn
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    Image of Dr Emilio Lizardo Dr Emilio Lizardo
    11/14/09

    In reply to Titan's Drone Boat Could Be Joined By a Nuclear Hot-Air Balloon
    So when the native Titanians (Titanites?) see it, will the UFO be dismissed as a weather balloon? #saturn
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    Image of Post-Nuked Post-Nuked
    11/15/09

    @Dr Emilio Lizardo:
    Perhaps swamp gas? #saturn
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    Image of Alasdair5000 Alasdair5000
    11/14/09

    In reply to Titan's Drone Boat Could Be Joined By a Nuclear Hot-Air Balloon
    A nuclear powered hot air balloon and a robotic boat. On another planet. That's AWESOME:) #saturn
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    Image of mosquitosBuzzz mosquitosBuzzz
    11/14/09

    @Alasdair5000: Agreed.
    But its gonna take soooo long.
    A solid 19 years to be ready to send a balloon to another planet, damn that makes it seem like we're even further behind than I've hoped. sigh #saturn
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    Image of GreyHammer GreyHammer
    11/14/09

    In reply to Titan's Drone Boat Could Be Joined By a Nuclear Hot-Air Balloon
    a balloon makes sense but am i the only one who finds it amusing that a rocket will deliver a device to a far off moon that was developed in the 1800s? #saturn
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    Image of Ghost_in_the_Machine Ghost_in_the_Machine
    11/14/09

    @GreyHammer: Well it is a nuclear powered hot air balloon. But the retro factor is pretty cool. #saturn
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    Image of CoffinDodger (If the typos crap. Blame my keyboard) CoffinDodger (If the typos crap. Blame my keyboard)
    11/14/09

    @Ghost_in_the_Machine: I whole heartedly expect that the crew will be wearing Top Hats whilst stroking their huge beards. Mwhahh. What-o. #saturn
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    Image of Bootknife-Jackson Bootknife-Jackson
    10/22/09

    In reply to What's the Worst that Could Happen on a Fake Mission to Mars?
    no tv and no beer make Homer something something.... #marsmission
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    Image of delusionsofgrandeur delusionsofgrandeur
    10/23/09

    @Bootknife-Jackson: "go crazy?"

    "dont mind if I do!!!" #marsmission
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    Image of Bootknife-Jackson Bootknife-Jackson
    10/24/09

    @delusionsofgrandeur: let's ALL go crazy! #marsmission
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    Image of Makidian Makidian
    10/22/09

    In reply to What's the Worst that Could Happen on a Fake Mission to Mars?
    If I had a science background and could take a kindle loaded with at least 75 books I would do it in a heartbeat. But I like quiet and isolation, always have, so I could be a freak or something. #marsmission
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    Image of Anekanta - former space marine Anekanta - former space marine
    10/22/09

    In reply to What's the Worst that Could Happen on a Fake Mission to Mars?
    I can just imagine it now: "Mars mission 1, can you give me a reading?"

    "Well, mission control... The party went into a level 5 dungeon and was attacked by a beholder... rolling D20 to hit now..." #marsmission
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    Image of OW-Holmes:Bringer of Fear OW-Holmes:Bringer of Fear
    10/22/09

    @Anekanta: Because no conflicts have ever started in a game of D&D. #marsmission
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    Image of Anekanta - former space marine Anekanta - former space marine
    10/22/09

    @OW-Holmes: Bringer of Fear: Oh, I wasn't precluding that possibility.

    Someone gets mad because the DM is railroading or some jerk is being a munchkin, or worse, the mission runs out of mountain dew... there are many ways for gaming to go wrong.

    But at least they could scratch that "boredom" problem off their list :) #marsmission
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    Image of Makidian Makidian
    10/22/09

    @Anekanta: I think it would evolve past the board or whatver (never played D&D) and they would use the dice to just act the whole thing out. #marsmission
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    Image of edosan edosan
    10/22/09

    In reply to What's the Worst that Could Happen on a Fake Mission to Mars?
    I think you're missing the bigger point here.

    There's a place called "The Russian Institute of Biomedical Problems."

    That is a great name. "So Yuri's going in, huh? What's he got?"

    "Oh, he has some biomedical...problems." #marsmission
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    Image of Tracy Ham and Eggs Tracy Ham and Eggs
    10/22/09

    @edosan: That was my first reaction as well. They kick our ass at naming things. They have Ministers too.. #marsmission
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    Image of LittleDragon LittleDragon
    10/22/09

    In reply to What's the Worst that Could Happen on a Fake Mission to Mars?
    I am going to head over and see if I qualify. The only thing that could make this more awesome is if it were a real mars mission. #marsmission
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    Image of RoboBagins RoboBagins
    10/22/09

    In reply to What's the Worst that Could Happen on a Fake Mission to Mars?
    If I volunteer can I take my game consoles and my backlog of unfinished games? And it would be cool if I could get review copies of games that aren't out yet.

    Seriously 520 days. I could learn a new language. Get in shape. Get really lazy and put on 30 pounds and then get in shape again. Read the greek classics. Learn how to code...

    Seriously, if I could take anything as long as it couldn't connect me to the outside world I would be fine.
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    Image of disatess disatess
    10/22/09

    In reply to What's the Worst that Could Happen on a Fake Mission to Mars?
    Why can we here in the U. S. or Britain to this test , in fact why the hell haven`t we done it already . #marsmission
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    Image of Shaftoe Shaftoe
    10/22/09

    @disatess: You have obviously never seen The Outer Limits #marsmission
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    Image of disatess disatess
    10/22/09

    @Shaftoe: I`m talking for real , I know we had dome experiment way back .... and it was pretty much a failure, But I mean really to an experiment involving all harsh possible conditions on mars ,

    and use as training, but do it here . #marsmission
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    Image of Shaftoe Shaftoe
    10/23/09

    @disatess: Actually the best possible place to do it for real would be in Antartica. Develope a self sustaining pod of some sort that would allow the participants to get out for 30 days to explore around and perhaps find their habitat only to crawl back into the pod for the return trip. #marsmission
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    Image of disatess disatess
    10/27/09

    @Shaftoe: very cool idea #marsmission
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    Image of disatess disatess
    10/27/09

    @Shaftoe: that is very cool idea #marsmission
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    Image of mipakr mipakr
    10/22/09

    In reply to What's the Worst that Could Happen on a Fake Mission to Mars?
    Solutions:
    -beard growing contest
    -coloring books
    -tamagotchi/furbie
    -reality show from within #marsmission
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    Image of disatess disatess
    10/22/09

    @mipakr: who can get the cute female scientists , see if can get internet from mars . #marsmission
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    Image of Ruthless, If you let me Ruthless, If you let me
    10/22/09

    In reply to What's the Worst that Could Happen on a Fake Mission to Mars?
    Cabin Fever!
    [www.imdb.com] #marsmission
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    Image of orbital1 orbital1
    10/22/09

    @Ruthless, If you let me: Space Madness! #marsmission
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    Image of Anekanta - former space marine Anekanta - former space marine
    10/22/09

    @orbital1: It's MY chocolate ice cream bar! Ever since I was a little child, people have been trying to take it away from me. Why can't they just leave us ALONE?! #marsmission
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    Image of The Ultimate Tea Cup The Ultimate Tea Cup
    10/22/09

    In reply to What's the Worst that Could Happen on a Fake Mission to Mars?
    The worst thing that could happen on a fake mars mission?

    You stick it out thinking you can leave at any time, but when you can't take it anymore and try to leave you find out that you were really sent to Mars! #marsmission
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    Image of Agent355 Agent355
    10/22/09

    @The Ultimate Tea Cup: NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!! #marsmission
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    Image of J_Frank_Parnell J_Frank_Parnell
    10/22/09

    @The Ultimate Tea Cup: Nicely done. #marsmission
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    Image of cadrina cadrina
    10/22/09

    In reply to What's the Worst that Could Happen on a Fake Mission to Mars?
    put some good image quality cameras there and show on tv. And you can get your new cable show. And yes I think that people would still watch other people doing nothing for hours. #marsmission
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    Ghost_in_the_Machine promoted this comment cadrina was starred cadrina was unstarred
    Image of Ghost_in_the_Machine Ghost_in_the_Machine
    10/22/09

    @cadrina: Space mission as reality TV show? Seems I've heard that idea once or twice before. #marsmission
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