It means I'm an unapologetic fence-sitter.

You know fence-sitting is less "admirable" and more "halfway to Crazytown"?

I never said I was being admirable, I just don't see any point in telling people how not to think.

Unless it's dangerous, or you know, they're wrong.

Well in any argument with a 'correct' view, the fencesitter will always be wrong. Does this mean I should discourage you from your position?

the fencesitter is always bi because they like sitting there.

fuckin' WoF.

being an atheist doesn't mean you have to tell people what to not think, and being religious doesn't mean you have to tell people what to think (although the bible says otherwise) you don't have to take others with you in order to make a decision

smack his bitch-ass down.

wow i just cant believe it they are so near to figure out what made the matter for the big bang!!! this will be the greatest discovery in 21th century

So long as it goes according to plan and doesn't break down again.

yeah then the big repair guy will have another episode of repairing it XD

They are moving towards being at a point at which they can decide if the hypothesis is correct. They could be completely wrong.

well we will see the results.I should go into these sorts of things cuz i like physics.

I thought that might fit in here well:

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal...ture10652.html

hmm wery interesting

Did you guys talk about that Earth-like Planet that NASA discovered?

Kepler 22b, briefly a page a go. Cool huh?

did you all read about phobos grunt falling back to earth between january 6 and 19 and also nasa is preparing a specialized shuttle to send to mars with a manned mission.

I've always regreted not being there for the moon landing, mainly because I wasn't born yet and my father was only 1 or 2, so I'm very hopeful for a manned mission to mars happening in my lifetime, I just hope I'll be near a tv when it happens, even though I know it would have happened about 22 minutes ago when I'm watching it

mmm i what would i give to be an astronout that would blast of to mars,lol 6 months of doing nothing and you get payed when you return to earth XD

The technological problems are surmountable with time. The psychological ones may not be. They have simulated the journey with real astronauts, and they all went mad.

well they should use geeks,give them unlimited internet and a super computer and they are yours for a year XD i wouldnt go mad if i were inside,well the only thing i would like is a pressure hatch so i can exit the craft and float around the ship and play catch the ball in space XD.Ppl cant survive in a container if they dont have fun,fun would last for 2 weeks like telling jokes and stuff and then they would all go mad from pure boredom or they might fight...

access to the net might be difficult as it would take up to 40 minutes for a page to load, that in itself would make anyone mad, I say give them access to a variety of video games including portal 2, the orange box, the entire destroy all humans series and of course all the oddworld games, give them a wide variety of science fiction tv shows including farscape, firefly, doctor who and red vs blue, also give them all of the hitchhikers guide to the galaxy books and a good supply of cokacola and they should be fine, also playing around in zero gravity could help

that would be fun.I mean they leave the astronauts in space with no dozens of games,thats like playing pacman or mario every day all over,they would go mad in less than a day.

Hang on, what about these guys?

520 days, doing fuck all but talk.

At least if they were going to Mars, they'd have more things to talk about.

Like Mars and why it's so fucking red all the time.

I can survive for about a week without leaving my room and kitchen and subsisting on the masses of archived entertainment I have. Six months without internet, freedom of movement or other people to talk to would send me mad.

well i would be mad if i wouldnt have tons of games and ficiton stories to read.Now really they cant send them into space without atleast some fun,what would you do all day,stare at the void,run on a runpad and eat.

Actually I think my art and literature productivity would go way up, even though I heavily depend on the convenience of Internet thesauruses and reference images.

For the first few weeks anyway. Even the most socially reclusive of us do get regular, if brief and unappreciated, social contact, and tips outside, which sustains us psychologically. Even then, we've all got terrible mental issues quite possibly as a result of it. You know the ones I'm talking about.

Then things get bad.

Time they sent wifi to Mars.

On another note, in history today I finally realised who you look like Marcus! Are you Trotsky incarnate?

Reincarnate, surely?

I don't see it myself. But I would consider "drink-sodden ex-Trotskyist popinjay" to be the highest of compliments.

i thought we already established that BM was the kid on the Snafu board game box.

IT'LL RUN YOU R A G G E D !

Do you have meetings that I'm not aware of?

The Marcus Bodily and Personality Features Interest and Debate Society.

TMBaPFIaDS

That is officially the most disturbing thing I've heard on this forum. Who's in it? I bet Max is.

Max is our dear leader.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfJiN...layer_embedded
well this video has something quite interesting to do with space exploration.