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Future homes on Mars
Guess you'll secure a "Martgage"
What's the interest rate


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Serve six days a year
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Wind's Antarctic-Cold
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Air's Carbon DIE-Oxide...

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Mars life not for me
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Wouldn't they need to send a lifetime supply of food, water and oxygen and power support gear strong enough to run it all? We spend billions just to send little rovers with a 90 day mission each with very limited abilities. People are totally tossing their cash away. If they really want to live in hell for the rest of their lives, send them to siberia away from all other civilization... cheaper, food, water, air and fuel amply available.

The people paying music be rich idiots. But most of the REALLY rich people I know actually ARE idiots. They are exceptional at one thing that made them rich, but in the rest of their life they lack common sense and most other essential mental functioning to live smart.

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Let's terraform it
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Joe may have just raised the bar! =)


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This is a rough sketch of the plan. ---
Subject to modification, of course smile
They think there is enough water (or ice) available in the soil and at the poles to be extracted. Almost all water will be recycled so not a tremendous amount needed
Oxygen would be produced by splitting water into its parts of hydrogen and oxygen
Food would be produced by intense hydroponic units.
They only envision a 4 man team of astronaute to start, followed by 2 more 4 man teams, so no large amounts of anything needed
OH yeah, The living units would be covered by a heavy layer of soil to help shield for radiation
Power to be from solar power
As I say, they're still working out the details smile
Cost of the peoject, about 6 billion $
I think mining may be envisioned

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Right good idea Joe
Hot air is very usefull
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A haiku a day
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Haiku a minute
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Rhyming a Haiku
Is a little hard to do
Do you think that's true?


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Depends on the what
You are making rhymes to but
I will not give up

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Haiku to planets
Haiku clear out to the stars
Haiku to you too

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What? No more haikus?
Across the universe there's
Aliens waiting

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if life's not there yet
humanity's on the way
if there is, they're dead


Did make an official submission, but I'll be darned if I remember
Definitely not as cynical and curmudgeony


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Is there time for an official entry? I had thought it was too late?


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Naaah, not too late.Deadline is July 1 and voting starts July 15
But, uh, you have to be 18 years old smile

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Universe waiting
Will man be blessing or curse
Quite soon we will see

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Send haiku to space?
Aliens won't be happy
Universe cursed

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It may come to pass
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I would cheer them on
Always hated them blasted
Haikus anyway

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Now they say that haiku doesn't really have a plural form, that the plural of haiku is haiku, however,never having got much schoolin' I figured they couldn't expect me to know "That" so I'd pluralize it anyway which most folks do and some say that's OK, and it's certainly OK with ME smile ( bet that's a "run on" sentence smile

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So haiku is/are like deer, elk, fish, bear, antelope, and grits? Never thought they were something you could eat (though I have heard about "eating your words").

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Eat your haiku son
It's full of syllables and stuff
Good for your gizzzard

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And punctuation?
Do people who eat haiku
End up in commas?

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A varied diet
Commas and apostrophes
Prepositions too

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Can we be so sure
Haiku is not like sushi
Such raw emotion


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Ah,haiku sushi
They chime together so well
Must be connected

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Haiku pork and beef
Superior to kobo
Horse meat coming soon


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All things to all folks
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hockey on tonight
haiku back here tomorrow
who do you think wins


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Haiku eternal
Though it is from the ages
It's still seventeen

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Hockey and haiku
Sound just like different tenses
of the same verb

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Styles may come and go
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the dawn awakens
lotus blossoms scent the winds
men are sent to mars


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It's one way only
Slipped the surly bonds of earth
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