Here are a couple of university professors who think that to jump-start the colonization of Mars, we ought to resolve right now that all tickets will be one-way. We totally agree, and a number of nominees immediately spring to mind.
Whom would you send -- say, if you could choose just three people?
Comments (19)
This is one of the easiest tests I've ever taken: Sam Adams, Randy Leonard, Rod Blagojevich. I'd pick Ron Wyden and Sarah Palin as alternates.
While Osama Bin Laden might be the most prepared to live on that desolate planet, and rightly deserving of the opportunity, we still have to find him first!
Billions and billions of dollars and countless lives and limbs later, he’s no where to be found.
George W Bush, mentioned Kanya West as a terrible guy,.....So why not let Kanya pilot the ship, no complaints from me! Now, we’re going to need a woman, for obvious reasons. I think Sarah Plain has proven to be an adventurist sort. So she can “ride the seat,” so to speak. Now, in keeping with Apollo # 13, who’s the sickly one? Let’s go with who we know is sick, Mayor Adams!
Of course this notion is ridiculously premature since we can't even make a Biosphere work here on mother earth.
But something tells me that many fools like those at the PDC and TriMet are pondering how plausible it is. As long as they are, as usual, fully insulated from any consequences themselves.
I can hear the promotion about the great investment (of other people's money) and the high livability volunteers can expect.
Ahmedinajad, Imam Rauf, and contents of tomb of Mohammed.
(Bin laden will be roasted in a slow internet spectacle by some shadowy paramilitary Buddhist group, hopefully averting any need to send him to Mars..)
As for Bush, he's looking pretty good compared to Obama. At least comparable. I think they should take a flying leap into a pyre together and get shoved off into a really, really big and holy river, very, very far away. Jupiter?
If You See Kay, Red 2011
Turnbull, Old Bull Red 2010
Cherry Tart, Cherry Pie Pinot Noir 2012
Trader Joe's Grand Reserve Cabernet, Oakville 2012
Benton Lane, Pinot Gris 2012
Campo Viejo, Rioja, Reserva 2008
Haden Fig, Pinot Noir 2012
Pendulum Red 2011
Vina Real, Plata, Crianza Rioja 2009
Edmunds St. John, Bone/Jolly, Gamay Noir Rose 2013
Bookwalter, Subplot No. 26
Ayna, Tempranillo 2011
Pete's Mountain, Pinot Noir, Haley's Block 2010
Apaltagua, Reserva Camenere 2012
Lugana, San Benedetto 2012
Argyle Brut 2007
Wildewood Pinot Gris 2012
Anciano, Tempranillo Reserva 2007
Santa Rita, Reserva Cabernet 2009
Casone, Toscana 2008
Fonseca Porto, Bin No. 27
Louis Jadot, Pouilly-Fuissé 2011
Trader Joe's, Grower's Reserve Pinot Noir 2012
Zenato, Lugana San Benedetto 2012
Vintjs, Cabernet 2010
14 Hands, Hot to Trot White 2012
Rainstorm, Oregon Pinot Gris 2012
Silver Palm, North Coast Cabernet 2011
Andrew Rich, Gewurtztraminer 2008
Rodney Strong, Charlotte's Home Sauvignon Blanc 2012
Canoe Ridge, Pinot Gris, Expedition 2012
Edmunds St. John, Bone-Jolly Gamay Noir Rose 2012
Dark Horse, Big Red Blend No. 01A
Elk Cove, Pinot Noir Rose 2012
Fletcher, Shiraz 2010
Picollo, Gavi 2011
Domaine Eugene Carrel, Jongieux 2012
Eyrie, Pinot Blanc 2010
Atticus, Pinot Noir 2010
Walter Scott, Pinot Noir, Holstein 2011
Shingleback, Cabernet, Davey Estate 2010
Coppola, Sofia Rose 2012
Joel Gott, 851 Cabernet 2010
Pol Roget Reserve Sparkling Wine
Mount Eden Chardonnay, Santa Cruz Mountains 2009
Rombauer Chardonnay, Napa Valley 2011
Beringer, Chardonnay, Napa Reserve 2011
Kim Crawford, Sauvignon Blanc 2011
Schloss Vollrads, Spaetlese Rheingau 2010
Belle Glos, Pinot Noir, Clark & Telephone 2010
WillaKenzie, Pinot Noir, Estate Cuvee 2010
Blackbird Vineyards, Arise, Red 2010
Chauteau de Beaucastel, Chateauneuf-du-Pape 2005
Northstar, Merlot 2008
Feather, Cabernet 2007
Silver Oak, Cabernet, Alexander Valley 2002
Silver Oak, Cabernet, Napa Valley 2002
Trader Joe's, Chardonnay, Grower's Reserve 2012
Silver Palm, Cabernet, North Coast 2010
Shingleback, Cabernet, Davey Estate 2010
E. Guigal, Cotes du Rhone 2009
Santa Margherita, Pinot Grigio 2011
Alamos, Cabernet 2011
Cousino Macul, Cabernet, Anitguas Reservas 2009
Dreaming Tree Cabernet 2010
1967, Toscana 2009
Charamba, Douro 2008
Horse Heaven Hills, Cabernet 2010
Lorelle, Horse Heaven Hills Pinot Grigio 2011
Avignonesi, Montepulciano 2004
Lorelle, Willamette Valley Pinot Noir 2011
Villa Antinori, Toscana 2007
Mercedes Eguren, Cabernet Sauvignon 2009
Lorelle, Columbia Valley Cabernet 2011
Purple Moon, Merlot 2011
Purple Moon, Chardonnnay 2011
Horse Heaven Hills, Cabernet 2010
Lorelle, Horse Heaven Hills Pinot Grigio 2011
Avignonesi, Montepulciano 2004
Lorelle, Willamette Valley Pinot Noir 2011
Villa Antinori, Toscana 2007
Mercedes Eguren, Cabernet Sauvignon 2009
Lorelle, Columbia Valley Cabernet 2011
Purple Moon, Merlot 2011
Purple Moon, Chardonnnay 2011
Abacela, Vintner's Blend No. 12
Opula Red Blend 2010
Liberte, Pinot Noir 2010
Chateau Ste. Michelle, Indian Wells Red Blend 2010
Woodbridge, Chardonnay 2011
King Estate, Pinot Noir 2011
Famille Perrin, Cotes du Rhone Villages 2010
Columbia Crest, Les Chevaux Red 2010
14 Hands, Hot to Trot White Blend
Familia Bianchi, Malbec 2009
Terrapin Cellars, Pinot Gris 2011
Columbia Crest, Walter Clore Private Reserve 2009
Campo Viejo, Rioja, Termpranillo 2010
Ravenswood, Cabernet Sauvignon 2009
Quinta das Amoras, Vinho Tinto 2010
Waterbrook, Reserve Merlot 2009
Lorelle, Horse Heaven Hills, Pinot Grigio 2011
Tarantas, Rose
Chateau Lajarre, Bordeaux 2009
La Vielle Ferme, Rose 2011
Benvolio, Pinot Grigio 2011
Nobilo Icon, Pinot Noir 2009
The Occasional Book
Maria Dermoȗt - The Ten Thousand Things
William Faulkner - As I Lay Dying
Markus Zusak - The Book Thief
Christopher Buckley - Thank You for Smoking
William Shakespeare - Othello
Joseph Conrad - Heart of Darkness
Bill Bryson - A Short History of Nearly Everything
Cheryl Strayed - Tiny Beautiful Things
Sara Varon - Bake Sale
Stephen King - 11/22/63
Paul Goldstein - Errors and Omissions
Mark Twain - A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Steve Martin - Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life
Beverly Cleary - A Girl from Yamhill, a Memoir
Kent Haruf - Plainsong
Hope Larson - A Wrinkle in Time, the Graphic Novel
Rudyard Kipling - Kim
Peter Ames Carlin - Bruce
Fran Cannon Slayton - When the Whistle Blows
Neil Young - Waging Heavy Peace
Mark Bego - Aretha Franklin, the Queen of Soul (2012 ed.)
Jenny Lawson - Let's Pretend This Never Happened
J.D. Salinger - Franny and Zooey
Charles Dickens - A Christmas Carol
Timothy Egan - The Big Burn
Deborah Eisenberg - Transactions in a Foreign Currency
Kurt Vonnegut Jr. - Slaughterhouse Five
Kathryn Lance - Pandora's Genes
Cheryl Strayed - Wild
Fyodor Dostoyevsky - The Brothers Karamazov
Jack London - The House of Pride, and Other Tales of Hawaii
Jack Walker - The Extraordinary Rendition of Vincent Dellamaria
Colum McCann - Let the Great World Spin
Niccolò Machiavelli - The Prince
Harper Lee - To Kill a Mockingbird
Emma McLaughlin & Nicola Kraus - The Nanny Diaries
Brian Selznick - The Invention of Hugo Cabret
Sharon Creech - Walk Two Moons
Keith Richards - Life
F. Sionil Jose - Dusk
Natalie Babbitt - Tuck Everlasting
Justin Halpern - S#*t My Dad Says
Mark Herrmann - The Curmudgeon's Guide to Practicing Law
Barry Glassner - The Gospel of Food
Phil Stanford - The Peyton-Allan Files
Jesse Katz - The Opposite Field
Evelyn Waugh - Brideshead Revisited
J.K. Rowling - Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
David Sedaris - Holidays on Ice
Donald Miller - A Million Miles in a Thousand Years
Mitch Albom - Have a Little Faith
C.S. Lewis - The Magician's Nephew
F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby
William Shakespeare - A Midsummer Night's Dream
Ivan Doig - Bucking the Sun
Penda Diakité - I Lost My Tooth in Africa
Grace Lin - The Year of the Rat
Oscar Hijuelos - Mr. Ives' Christmas
Madeline L'Engle - A Wrinkle in Time
Steven Hart - The Last Three Miles
David Sedaris - Me Talk Pretty One Day
Karen Armstrong - The Spiral Staircase
Charles Larson - The Portland Murders
Adrian Wojnarowski - The Miracle of St. Anthony
William H. Colby - Long Goodbye
Steven D. Stark - Meet the Beatles
Phil Stanford - Portland Confidential
Rick Moody - Garden State
Jonathan Schwartz - All in Good Time
David Sedaris - Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim
Anthony Holden - Big Deal
Robert J. Spitzer - The Spirit of Leadership
James McManus - Positively Fifth Street
Jeff Noon - Vurt
Road Work
Miles run year to date: 212
At this date last year: 60
Total run in 2013: 257
In 2012: 129
In 2011: 113
In 2010: 125
In 2009: 67
In 2008: 28
In 2007: 113
In 2006: 100
In 2005: 149
In 2004: 204
In 2003: 269
Comments (19)
This is one of the easiest tests I've ever taken: Sam Adams, Randy Leonard, Rod Blagojevich. I'd pick Ron Wyden and Sarah Palin as alternates.
Posted by Pat | November 15, 2010 9:17 PM
Right. We definitely want to hang on, say, to Osama Bin Laden.
Posted by Allan L. | November 15, 2010 9:21 PM
1. Sam Adams
2. John "Retread" Kitzhaber
3. Randy Leonard
Posted by NoPo Guy | November 15, 2010 9:28 PM
George W. Bush and Dick Cheney.
Posted by none | November 15, 2010 9:28 PM
Sam/Randy/Blumenauer
Posted by Mister Tee | November 15, 2010 9:34 PM
I would go and I would take Halle Berry, Jessica Alba, and Jessica Biel with me. Wait a minute...that's four.
Posted by Gibby | November 15, 2010 10:26 PM
Leonardi da Vinci, Einstein, and Werner von Braun. They would find a way back.
Posted by lw | November 15, 2010 10:50 PM
While Osama Bin Laden might be the most prepared to live on that desolate planet, and rightly deserving of the opportunity, we still have to find him first!
Billions and billions of dollars and countless lives and limbs later, he’s no where to be found.
George W Bush, mentioned Kanya West as a terrible guy,.....So why not let Kanya pilot the ship, no complaints from me! Now, we’re going to need a woman, for obvious reasons. I think Sarah Plain has proven to be an adventurist sort. So she can “ride the seat,” so to speak. Now, in keeping with Apollo # 13, who’s the sickly one? Let’s go with who we know is sick, Mayor Adams!
“Houston,.... we have a success story!
Posted by Bad Brad | November 15, 2010 11:38 PM
For interpretation of the cosmic nature of it all, I think I'd include the Reverend Chuck Currie.
Posted by Jack Bog | November 15, 2010 11:46 PM
Randy Leonard. For all three seats.
Posted by John Rettig | November 16, 2010 12:26 AM
Sam, Randy and Sarah!
Posted by Bart | November 16, 2010 8:59 AM
Gibby,
I'm telling your wife.
Of course this notion is ridiculously premature since we can't even make a Biosphere work here on mother earth.
But something tells me that many fools like those at the PDC and TriMet are pondering how plausible it is. As long as they are, as usual, fully insulated from any consequences themselves.
I can hear the promotion about the great investment (of other people's money) and the high livability volunteers can expect.
Posted by Ben | November 16, 2010 9:07 AM
Sarah, Bush 43 and Darth Cheney
Heck, Martians have got to be a bigger threat to our safety than Muslims, and I am sure Sarah can see them from her house.
Posted by mp97303 | November 16, 2010 10:56 AM
Donald Rumsfeld, Obama, and Ralph Nader.
Alternates..
Ahmedinajad, Imam Rauf, and contents of tomb of Mohammed.
(Bin laden will be roasted in a slow internet spectacle by some shadowy paramilitary Buddhist group, hopefully averting any need to send him to Mars..)
As for Bush, he's looking pretty good compared to Obama. At least comparable. I think they should take a flying leap into a pyre together and get shoved off into a really, really big and holy river, very, very far away. Jupiter?
Posted by gaye harris | November 16, 2010 11:22 AM
Me, myself and I.
Posted by Hg | November 16, 2010 4:36 PM
I vote Sam, Randy and Sarah Palin. The heat from the political arguments ought to qualify as a new energy source!
Posted by umpire | November 16, 2010 5:48 PM
Larry.
Curly.
Moe.
And I'd just like to say, "one of these days, Alice -- POW! -- right to the Moon."
Posted by Tenskwatawa | November 16, 2010 7:08 PM
I think James O'Keefe and Chris Christie are angling for a seat on that shuttle
http://blog.nj.com/njv_bob_braun/2010/11/braun_heroic_nj_teacher_was_sa.html
Posted by George Anonymuncule Seldes | November 16, 2010 11:51 PM
I'd send Sheila Jackson-Lee and have her look for that US flag she thought the astronauts planted.
Posted by Eric L | November 17, 2010 9:13 PM