Looking for water on Mars

[Banditbandit]

Too True

[oldrider]

Even more readily available for distribution on earth (wanted or not) are munitions and armaments!

[pzkpfw]

Who's this "we"?

We pay for petrol and diesel for our vehicles and stuff, so the companies that sell it can still make a profit making big pipelines to move the stuff (or what becomes the stuff) around.

No such incentive exists to pipe water around in the way implied in that picture, so it doesn't happen.

People who want to do something about it, are free to donate money, or petition their Governments to donate money.


(Personally I'm a bit bemused that some of these places where people are experiencing droughts and need this help, are the same places my Grandmother was donating money to many years ago. Maybe people in those places ought to just move elsewhere, or stop having children? How long does the rest of the World have to keep throwing money at an endless problem?)

[Big Dave]

It's a god-awful small affair to the girl with the mousey hair.

[SMOKEU]

(Personally I'm a bit bemused that some of these places where people are experiencing droughts and need this help, are the same places my Grandmother was donating money to many years ago. Maybe people in those places ought to just move elsewhere, or stop having children? How long does the rest of the World have to keep throwing money at an endless problem?)

You can't stop niggers from being niggers. TIA (This Is Africa).

[Murray]

You can't stop niggers from being niggers. TIA (This Is Africa).

You cant stop racists from being racists. TINZ (This is New Zealand)

[Grubber]

You can't stop niggers from being niggers. TIA (This Is Africa).

And ya can't stop white South Africans from bein arsehole racists.!

[EJK]

[Fastmark]

(Personally I'm a bit bemused that some of these places where people are experiencing droughts and need this help, are the same places my Grandmother was donating money to many years ago. Maybe people in those places ought to just move elsewhere, or stop having children? How long does the rest of the World have to keep throwing money at an endless problem?)

So good old NZ should open the doors and flood the country with immigrants?

I will now stand back and watch the explosion

[Zedder]

Growing tomatoes in desert areas:http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2011/02...in-the-desert/

[carbonhed]

The four science goals of NASA's long-term Mars Exploration Program are:

Determine whether life ever arose on Mars
Characterize the climate of Mars
Characterize the geology of Mars
Prepare for human exploration

So it's the second option... you're stupid.

[mashman]

(Personally I'm a bit bemused that some of these places where people are experiencing droughts and need this help, are the same places my Grandmother was donating money to many years ago. Maybe people in those places ought to just move elsewhere, or stop having children? How long does the rest of the World have to keep throwing money at an endless problem?)

It makes people feel good to donate, even though it perpetuates a cycle of poverty for billions on the planet. Aye, not just 1 or 2, but billions. Money will never be a solution.

[unstuck]

No water on my mars..........

[Zedder]

It makes people feel good to donate, even though it perpetuates a cycle of poverty for billions on the planet. Aye, not just 1 or 2, but billions. Money will never be a solution.

The Sahara Forest Project team would disagree with you there. The projected solution to the problem of re-vegetating 20 hectares of desert is 80 million Euros.

Also the Groasis Waterboxx, a solution to the problem of growing trees in arid, eroded and rocky regions, was USD$7.1 million.

[SMOKEU]

You cant stop racists from being racists. TINZ (This is New Zealand)

And ya can't stop white South Africans from bein arsehole racists.!

Have either of you been to Africa?

(Personally I'm a bit bemused that some of these places where people are experiencing droughts and need this help, are the same places my Grandmother was donating money to many years ago. Maybe people in those places ought to just move elsewhere, or stop having children? How long does the rest of the World have to keep throwing money at an endless problem?)

So good old NZ should open the doors and flood the country with immigrants?

I will now stand back and watch the explosion

It makes people feel good to donate, even though it perpetuates a cycle of poverty for billions on the planet. Aye, not just 1 or 2, but billions. Money will never be a solution.

One of the reasons why I'm against foreign aid is because the black Africans have exceeded their habitats carrying capacity, largely due to industrialisation and improved medical care. Since this has decreased the infant mortality rate, as well as the adult mortality rate, and because their breeding habits haven't changed, foreign aid only perpetuates the overpopulation as they're stuck in an endless breeding cycle. Their numbers can double in a generation, and short of a large scale population cull the problems will only increase. In short; there are not enough resources for them to survive at their current and increasing population without increased foreign intervention.