When man walks on the surface of another planet, it'll be our greatest moment as a species

[MrScorpio]

It'll be something that I'll truly enjoy, if I ever live long enough to see it.

As a caveat, I discount our moon landing in lieu of an actual planet mission, like to Mars or Pandora (Wherever it may be).

But at the moment, I'm pretty cool with our first Black President squaring away some unfinished business that was left over from that previous gang of criminal yahoos.

It may not be as great as watching Marstronauts do the Crip Walk in the shadow of Olympus Mons, but I'm still diggin' the most recent events quite well.

[sakabatou]

1. Oh, that'd piss off a lot of Bloods.

[MrScorpio]

2. I'm sure that it will, my friend

I'm sure that it will

[ZombieHorde]

3. That won't beat Dungeons & Dragons as our greatest achievement. nt

[Codeine]

12. Natural 20! nt

[ZombieHorde]

18. Ha! Thanks. nt

[guitar man]

4. My 5 year old daughter

My 5 year old daughter told me the other night that she wants to be the first person to go to Mars :)

[MrScorpio]

6. I hope that she knows the dance steps

I'll be looking out for that

[guitar man]

8. I bet she will

She's taking dance classes now :D

[Deep13]

5. Well, the moon kind of is another planet...

...it's just one that orbits the Earth rather than being in its own independent orbit about the sun. The moon, the four big moons of Jupiter, Saturn and Neptune's big moons are all big enough to be planets, but they are orbiting planets that are in turn orbiting the sun.

[MrScorpio]

7. And a chicken is a kind of bird

But you won't find one on the Great Seal

[damntexdem]

9. What if it's a woman?

jus askin

[snagglepuss]

10. An accomplishment but far from the greatest. The greatest would be achieving

peace and finding non polluting sources of energy.

[bobbolink]

19. The greatest would be to make sure everyone has adequate nutrtion and a decent place to live.

The tragedy is that is totally reachable, but not considered sexy enough.

[Iggo]

11. It'll just barely beat out the invention of the electric guitar. (n/t)

[Codeine]

14. Someone put Les Pauls where there should have been Stratocasters.

Let me fix that for ya. :evilgrin:

[Iggo]

17. Truth be told, I've been a humbucker guy for decades...

...but I finally plugged a real Strat into a real amp at the local GC and let it wail and I gotta say...now I get it.

:headbang:

(EDIT: Hum doesn't always need to be bucked, is what I'm trying to say.)

[Aerows]

13. Couldn't agree more

I can't wait for us to set foot on another planet.

[Ichingcarpenter]

15. Dr.Neil deGrasse Tyson the astro physicist

Two American goals that took a decade, and more than $100 billion to achieve:

1) Walk on the Moon
2) Find Bin Laden

[lumberjack_jeff]

16. The first "man" to walk on mars will be a robot with human consciousness.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind_uploading

People are too heavy, fragile, short-lived, slow and demanding of resources.

[WatsonT]

20. Seems likely that that person will not be American

Sad.