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Got home from seeing my blood doctor a while age and found my dogs watching a science show about NASA's plans for sending people to Mars. Seems that they may be stuck on the idea of a surface launch. Now, I know and many other people know that assembling and launching a spacecraft from a high earth orbit will save a huge amount of fuel. Sure, it will take a lot of fuel to shuttle the parts and assemblers out to put the thing together, but they aren't going to be far from the filling station back in town. Leaving from high earth orbit will save almost enough fuel for the return trip.
Let's hope there's intelligent life somewhere in space 'cause it's buggar all down here. -- Monte Python
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Yes but like you said they have to get all the stuff and fuel up there anyway. Why take it up and sit in orbit putting it together, just blast off and and keep going. easier to fix/update things on earth as well.
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"Go to the bathroom now because we're not going to stop until we get to Mars!" 
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Yes but like you said they have to get all the stuff and fuel up there anyway. Why take it up and sit in orbit putting it together, just blast off and and keep going. easier to fix/update things on earth as well.
They built the ISS in orbit and keep it manned and supplied. That proves it is possible. Of course, they might have to come up with a replacement for the shuttle to haul the parts, proving that imam obama was an ass for giving all that hardware away.
I wonder who is on what payroll?
Let's hope there's intelligent life somewhere in space 'cause it's buggar all down here. -- Monte Python
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Got home from seeing my blood doctor a while age and found my dogs watching a science show about NASA's plans for sending people to Mars. Seems that they may be stuck on the idea of a surface launch. Now, I know and many other people know that assembling and launching a spacecraft from a high earth orbit will save a huge amount of fuel. Sure, it will take a lot of fuel to shuttle the parts and assemblers out to put the thing together, but they aren't going to be far from the filling station back in town. Leaving from high earth orbit will save almost enough fuel for the return trip.
Smart dogs. Mine prefer the cartoon network. 
We all like to think of ourselves as rugged individualists. But when push comes to shove most of us are sheep who do what we are told. Worst of all, a lot of us become unpaid agents of whoever is controlling the agenda by enforcing the current dogma on the few rugged individualists who actually exist.
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I used to have a corgi that insisted on getting up at 7:00 on Saturday morning so she could go out and come back in time to watch the Smurfs. She would do circles in front of the TV until it was turned on. If it was on the wrong channel, she would keep carrying on until it was changed.
A neighbor babysat her one weekend when we went to the Tulare motorcycle rally. She met us in the driveway hollering about how that bloody dog made her get up at 7 in the morning and watch those nasty little blue things!
Let's hope there's intelligent life somewhere in space 'cause it's buggar all down here. -- Monte Python
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