[GTA_stu]

QUOTE (Robinski @ Thursday, Aug 2 2012, 15:38)

QUOTE (Otter @ Thursday, Aug 2 2012, 14:29) I'd love to see how quickly a tree can grow in reduced gravity, and what effect it would have on it's structure. Not to mention fruit. It could be an entirely different ball game. Great. Now I really want to try space fruit but probably never will.

You're setting the bar too high, first you should try fruit then you can try space fruit. First geordie to ever sample a piece of fruit. You'd have your headstone quotation sorted as well.

As for super strength on mars, now that would be sweet. You could enter the martian olympics and come first in pretty much every event. You could be an incredibly bad ass policeman, no need for battering rams to smash some druggies door in you could just use your fists or throw other criminals into it for extra badassness. Some douche bus driver not wait for you as you attempt to catch a fair? Well catch up to him and pry the doors open and rip his head off. Well maybe that's a step too far. I bet you could kali ma people as well with their weaker bones structure and whatnot.

[Robinski]

QUOTE (GTA_stu @ Thursday, Aug 2 2012, 15:54)

QUOTE (Robinski @ Thursday, Aug 2 2012, 15:38) QUOTE (Otter @ Thursday, Aug 2 2012, 14:29) I'd love to see how quickly a tree can grow in reduced gravity, and what effect it would have on it's structure. Not to mention fruit. It could be an entirely different ball game. Great. Now I really want to try space fruit but probably never will. You're setting the bar too high, first you should try fruit then you can try space fruit. First geordie to ever sample a piece of fruit. You'd have your headstone quotation sorted as well.

I'm pretty sure there's fruit in cider. So there.

Besides, I'm actually from Middlesbrough, so Mars would be a nice change, to have an atmosphere you can actually see through. Even at 95% CO2, its' got to be healthier than the smog here.

[GTA_stu]

Oh so you're not actually a full on geordie then, in fact I'm not even sure if that makes you a geordie. I may have just insulted you in a most unforgivable way what with the inter-city rivalry up there. No smog here in Hull, but there's plenty of other stuff that makes up for it. In fact I'd love smog as I wouldn't have to see as much of this awful city. Well it's not that bad, but I sure as hell don't plan on staying here. Maybe I'll apply for that mars mission...

Edit: Zilcho I'd love to. It's complicated though, see there's this corrupt cop called officer tencents who framed me for robbing 5 freddos from a corner shop. He's got me doing all this crazy stuff like making me pick his son up from school on my bicycle and riding him home, reading 50 shades of grey to his wife, and helping him with his sudoku. It's f*cked up man.

This post has been edited by GTA_stu on Thursday, Aug 2 2012, 16:48

[El Zilcho]

QUOTE (GTA_stu @ Thursday, Aug 2 2012, 17:38)

Oh so you're not actually a full on geordie then, in fact I'm not even sure if that makes you a geordie. I may have just insulted you in a most unforgivable way what with the inter-city rivalry up there. No smog here in Hull, but there's plenty of other stuff that makes up for it. In fact I'd love smog as I wouldn't have to see as much of this awful city. Well it's not that bad, but I sure as hell don't plan on staying here. Maybe I'll apply for that mars mission...

Escape the ghetto!

[Killjoy2022]

QUOTE (GTA_stu @ Thursday, Aug 2 2012, 16:38)

Oh so you're not actually a full on geordie then, in fact I'm not even sure if that makes you a geordie. I may have just insulted you in a most unforgivable way what with the inter-city rivalry up there. No smog here in Hull, but there's plenty of other stuff that makes up for it. In fact I'd love smog as I wouldn't have to see as much of this awful city. Well it's not that bad, but I sure as hell don't plan on staying here. Maybe I'll apply for that mars mission...

i think once you're past Sunderland you start classifying people as geordies, idk what people from 'boro get called, but being from Hartlepool we get called Monkey Hangers, it varies by town at times.

[ThirstyHyena]

http://www.space.com/17360-private-mars-on...n-sponsors.html

A Dutch company that aims to land humans on Mars in 2023 as the vanguard of a permanent Red Planet colony has received its first funding from sponsors, officials announced this week.

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Mars One estimates that it will cost about $6 billion to put the first four humans on the Red Planet. The company hopes the "Big Brother"-style reality show will pay most of these costs. The televised action is slated to begin in 2013, when Mars One begins the process of selecting its 40-person astronaut corps.

I really hope they succeed.