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Browse the Moon or Mars

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Google Maps has updated a new feature which will allow you to browse out to the Moon or Mars.

This will allow us to check out prime real estate locations for future residential developments.
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Thanks, but no. The commute would suck. ;)
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If you live on Mars then you have will have to work on Mars. No nosy neighbors, that's for certain.
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Except for the interstellar probes with cameras attached. :lol:

Seriously, though, that's pretty cool.
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Hashi Lebwohl wrote:Google Maps has updated a new feature which will allow you to browse out to the Moon or Mars.

This will allow us to check out prime real estate locations for future residential developments.
That was very enjoyable, Hashi! Plus now I know, when it's time to colonize Mars, that I'll want to have a stake in Protonius Mensae. Looks like the sunrises will be especially dramatic there. :wink:
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In relation to 'real estate on Mars' - you may have missed the boat already! Mars One, a 'not-for-profit' Dutch organisation is currently finalising it's candidate list for the 20 men and 20 women it intends to place as the first settlers on Mars in 2024. The trip, which has no return ticket attached to it is to be launced in four £6 billion spacecraft for a journey that will take eight months. The sucesfull candidates will be given an effective 'tabula rasa' on which they will either 'make or break' their own future. There will be no laws, no parliment, no fall-back system. They will survive [or not] on their ability to be self-suficcient and self-governing untill the time of thier deaths, by which time they will have procreated the next generation of settlers or not as the case may be.
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Oh well, Peter, I won't worry about it. Truthfully, that wasn't on my bucket list, anyway. ;)
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peter (USSM) wrote:In relation to 'real estate on Mars' - you may have missed the boat already! Mars One, a 'not-for-profit' Dutch organisation is currently finalising it's candidate list for the 20 men and 20 women it intends to place as the first settlers on Mars in 2024. The trip, which has no return ticket attached to it is to be launced in four £6 billion spacecraft for a journey that will take eight months. The sucesfull candidates will be given an effective 'tabula rasa' on which they will either 'make or break' their own future. There will be no laws, no parliment, no fall-back system. They will survive [or not] on their ability to be self-suficcient and self-governing untill the time of thier deaths, by which time they will have procreated the next generation of settlers or not as the case may be.
Very Heinlein. There was a point in my life when I fantasied about such things. Not so much now, but the maps are fascinating.

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