January 2011

If aliens do exist? And Are Like Us? Watch Out?!

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Dylan Ratigan on his show earlier this week explored the question: If aliens do exist will they be mean?

Well, in so many words, famed physicist Stephen Hawking warned last year that we had better raise our Star Trek-like shields. Since we only have Star Trek-like shields in our fiction, we had better go dark, silent and quiet, and quit trying to contact aliens.

More on a One-Way Ticket to Mars: Would You Volunteer to Colonize Mars?


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While the incredibly odd conspiracy theorist might still believe that man never made it to the Moon, scientists are predicting that we might be able to send people to Mars in as little as twenty years.  Because of a number of complicated factors involving the high cost of such an adventure, any ideas of a trip to Mars have been thus far postponed. However, a new idea is being floated around that would solve many of the problems with a mission—sending astronauts to Mars with a one-way ticket only.