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Skepticism, Science & Pseudoscience

Odin2005

(53,521 posts) Mon Aug 27, 2012, 12:04 PM Aug 2012

The anti space exploration people are so predictable.

I should have known making a post in the wake of Armstrong's death about why we weren't colonizing the solar system would have brought out the Luddites and misanthropes and turned the thread into a 500-post epic flame-war filled with ignorance and allusions to "Avatar". Why do I always make such threads hoping for educated and reasonable discussions?

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The anti space exploration people are so predictable. (Original Post) Odin2005 Aug 2012 OP

Uh........because this is the internet? dimbear Aug 2012 #1

Telling the truth is not misanthropy McGee from Muskogee Aug 2012 #2

We're coming for you! Dr. Strange Aug 2012 #3

dimbear

(6,271 posts)

1. Uh........because this is the internet?

Reply to Odin2005 (Original post)

Mon Aug 27, 2012, 04:44 PM

Aug 2012

Just a guess.

McGee from Muskogee

(12 posts)

2. Telling the truth is not misanthropy

Reply to Odin2005 (Original post)

Mon Aug 27, 2012, 11:56 PM

Aug 2012

We're not leaving Earth. You need to quit being so butthurt about it and go watch Star Trek or something. You have NO IDEA about astrophysics except what that Randian buffoon Zubrin says. Space colonization is a flight of fancy.

Dr. Strange

(26,000 posts)

3. We're coming for you!

Reply to McGee from Muskogee (Reply #2)

Wed Aug 29, 2012, 03:51 PM

Aug 2012

Warn your fellow Martians!

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