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  • Questions

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    Here are my responses to a short Mars Society interview I had to do. Excuse the cheesiness, but these things you have to do… Name and Chapter, other bio info Adrian Hon, UK Chapter Steering Committee member, editor of New Mars. How long have you been a member of The Mars Society? Since it was…

  • Twisted words

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    One of the things that I despise the most in this world is when someone twists your words. Glenn Reynolds recently said in a column that Sir Martin Rees, by saying: “If they were governmental or international (expeditions), Antarctic-style restraint might be feasible. On the other hand, if the explorers were privately funded adventurers of…

  • First post

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    Our first entry for First Words is in, from David Brin! True, I know him probably the most out of everyone I’ve contacted, but small steps and all that, eh?

  • First Words

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    So here I am, emailing every single famous and semi-famous and should-be-famous person I know or have ever come into contact with* (or even less) about First Words, and also getting ready to send forth a huge wave of actual, physical letters. So far, the response has been of deafening silence. Not really a surprise,…

  • Haiku 2

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    The folks at New Mars won second place in the Kuro5hin haiku contest for the princely sum of $24! See the reaction at the New Mars forums.

  • New Mars

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    I mentioned on Tiny that the New Mars forums had hit 1000 posts three days ago, after first coming online last September about eight months ago. That might not seem like a lot of traffic – in fact, averaged over 240 days that’s only a bit more than four posts a day. I write more…

  • 1000th post

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    New Mars forums reaches the 1000 post mark! We’ve come a long way, baby…

  • Mars shooting

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    Shooting down a spacecraft from Mars – ‘Now, I don’t think that anyone, US included, has the capability to shoot down a spacecraft. But let’s imagine they do, they go and try to shoot down a human spacecraft returning from Mars…’