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   wndrwrthg said, 5 months ago

   THE MARTIANS ARE COMING! THE MARTIANS ARE COMING!

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   Joe Minotaur said, 5 months ago

   At the bar it’s…

   THE MARTINIS ARE COMING, THE MARTINIS ARE COMING!!

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   cleokaya said, 5 months ago

   Just as long as we are not invaded by Dick Cheney in August.

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   madKanga said, 5 months ago

   A little mis-information goes a loo-ong way

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   johnparadox said, 5 months ago

   Okay, I’m gonna watch SPACED INVADERS

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   Hugh B. Hayve said, 5 months ago

   I wonder what Valentine Michael Smith would say about this…

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   ejcapulet said, 5 months ago

   Wait a minute - I thought Dick Cheney WAS from Mars.

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   okeedoekee said, 5 months ago

   I watched an episode of NOVA reporting about a meteor of significant size that is on a collision course with earth. Due to hit in 2019 if I remember correctly. Plus there is a ‘key hole’ the meteor could enter and create extra special havoc. Maybe Jeffrey’s transporter could drag the meteor down a bit and change it’s orbit.

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   Danny Holstein said, 5 months ago

   So many have complained of the internet hoax aspect – let me be the first to complain of the anti-gravity thing-a-ma-bob!

   ANTI-GRAVITY DOESN’T EXIST! Plus, while I’m at it, you can’t exceed the speed of light, so both Star Trek and Star Wars are just plain stupid!

   There, I said it!

10. 

    Richard said, 5 months ago

    Valentine Michael Smith would “Grok” this. (viva Robert Heinlein!)

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    js305 said, 5 months ago

    OK DH, you said it, so what’s your point??? It’s a political cartoon, that’s all. Sometimes it sounds like a tutorial on how to gather news the same way as the Big 3 do it.

    And by the way, this stuff is all true, don’t you read the National Enquirer and the Weekly World News? I can hardly wait…

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    Doctor Toon said, 5 months ago

    I don’t believe everything I hear on the news.
    I do believe everything I read in the comics.

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    celt42 said, 5 months ago

    Of course anti-gravity exists - why else would astronauts float about in space? As for the speed of light, in 2000 American scientists moved lasers beams at some 300 times the speed of light, albeit for extemely short periods. Here’s the news story “Beam smashes light barrier”. And, no, it’s not the National Enquirer.

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/841690.stm.>

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    60david said, 5 months ago

    Looks like another job for the “Men in Black”.

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    Jazzlily said, 5 months ago

    Wiley, Ooooh – A New Character, I’m excited. Can’t imagine who or what it will be. Can’t wait! Enjoy your vacation. It is well deserved when you can keep thousands of diverse people so thoroughly entertained.

    To 60david: Or Doctor Who.

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    GuntotingLiberal said, 5 months ago

    Astronauts floating is free fall. But theoretically even by the laws of general relativity anti-gravity shouldn’t technically be impossible… just pretty much as close to impossible as one cares to get. But who needs anti-gravity anyway. We have mag-lev! And we’ve already invented teleporters…

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    DigitalFrog said, 5 months ago

    I wonder how much martians look like squirrels….

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    alife said, 5 months ago

    My Mom would call me Miss Information :D

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    bmonk said, 5 months ago

    @okeedoekee, no, the asteroid Apophis will definitely come close, but miss, in 2029. The thing about the key window is that, if it hits that region, it will return in 2036 to wallop the Earth. However, astronomers consider that not very likely. Under 1 in 5000 at last estimate I could find. (Edited with more precise and more current information.)

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    Wildmustang1262 said, 5 months ago

    Oh hogwash! (Scoffs!)

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    SQUIDBREAKER said, 5 months ago

    The history channel has been renamed ‘snooz tube’. The announcement must be on ‘versus’ or ‘discovery’ channel. The type of invasion might be found ‘ensample’ in the old testament. That could be bad. But i a a little fuzzy on the whole ‘good - bad’ thing these days.

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    grazer said, 5 months ago

    I don’t know what to believe anymore.
    NASA says one thing and Danae says another.

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    jamadison4 said, 5 months ago

    ,
    Does Mars have much OIL ?????????????

    Is Osama bin Laden really a Muslim Martian ????????

    Does Darth Cheney want to invade Mars, before another 9/11 ???????????

    My heart can’t stant the excitement !!!!!!!!!

    ,

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    SQUIDBREAKER said, 5 months ago

    I think just five virgins have oil right now. Is Dana a ghost-buster?

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    PossumPete said, 5 months ago

    “Mars Attacks”!

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    okeedoekee said, 5 months ago

    Thanks bmonk, I knew the thing had a name. A number also. Man, finally someone who knows what I am talking about.

    And EMET, there is a passage in Revalation that reminds me of Apophis. I’ll have to look it up later.

    It’s all good.

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    crunkbot said, 5 months ago

    okay, I’ve read the past few days’ comments about the Mars/Moon “hoax”…

    What it boils down to for me:
    A work of fiction can contain whatever fantastic or unrealistic elements its author desires, but it should still be INTERNALLY consistent. If you accept the sci-fi plot device of the kid building an anti-G transporter, then that means he is obviously highly intelligent. TOO intelligent to casually accept and repeat the Mars-as-big-as-the-Moon misinformation.

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    openminded said, 5 months ago

    I just enjoy the heck out of these comments- even if I did have to pony up the money to becum a genius- now I are one ;)

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    Dutchboy1 said, 5 months ago

    The thing is, you could just as easily say “Joe Beiden” instead of “Dick Cheney”, maybe more so.

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    AKHenderson said, 5 months ago

    Time to build that border security fence.

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    quiptrip said, 5 months ago

    Oh, is this a political strip now? :{

    I read comics–and this one more than most–for laughs, not for this kind of cheap shot.

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    jimeguess said, 5 months ago

    Dick Cheney??? HA! We have ALREADY been invaded by BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA the tax and spend, tax and spend, tax and spend, take away our rights and freedoms president.

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    mikethegreat said, 5 months ago

    hey we all know star wars is fake and made up science but the star trek stuff is real

    also
    desperately need non sequitur back in the chicago tribune

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    SQUIDBREAKER said, 5 months ago

    news guy must be michael savage - only one who doesn’t edit life.

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    AKHenderson said, 5 months ago

    On another note, Flo and Cap’n Eddie should be somewhere in the title banner.

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    pbarnrob said, 5 months ago

    OK, we’ve got Apophis sorted out; Google NEO or “Near Earth Objects” for more real angst. The ones to worry about are the dark ones we haven’t seen yet, that could make a mess! More eyes needed; see the NEAT project.

    Statistically, a 1 in 5000 chance of a multi-megaton explosion is well worth avoiding! How, you ask? How about solar-sail robots patrolling with cameras, engines and cables, to find, capture and nudge an object into an orbit where we could mine it? Worth stopping a war to re-tool?
    —-
    Dick Feynman was asked once (at Asilomar) about anti-gravity. He said (I paraphrase) it was very real, happens all the time; he’s standing on it! Floors, tables, chairs work!
    —-
    Think of free fall like this: You’re falling toward the center of Earth from low orbit, but you’re traveling sideways fast enough (about 17,000 mph) that by the time you get there, you’re around to the side 90 degrees away. Works every day!
    —-
    I suspect the real Martians will be Bradbury’s; reflected in the canal. Fascinating place, but not move-in-ready yet.

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    Miserichord said, 5 months ago

    Crankbot - Highly intelligent people are rarely intelligent in all ways.

    A brilliant theoretical physicist/engineer might be hopeless at personal relationships, or keeping to a budget.

    Intelligent people often ardently believe things other people find silly because the WANT to believe them, and never closely examine them.

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    akibono said, 5 months ago

    Beam me up Scotty, there is no intelligent life down here.

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    okeedoekee said, 5 months ago

    Believe or not doesn’t matter. Just to wonder, explore, discover and wonder some more is intelligence.

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    Sztripi said, 5 months ago

    Ok, yust to clarify… We (physicists) don’t know what gravity is exactly (yet)… There are several competing theories. The presently most accepted is the theory of general relativity. Well, there are several possible interpretations that allow the existence of anti gravity - although it is very unlikely (for instance: one would need negative mass). However one thing is certain, we have not been able to detect anywhere anything similar. On the other hand, what we really need is the ability to manipulate gravity better (even now we can manipulate it extensively, but it is not good enough).
    According to the present theories - namely the theory of general relativity - again, it is impossible to travel faster then the speed of light. BUT we can cheat. I have seen the math and it is indeed possible. So called warp speed is not so much of a science fiction (but we would need to manipulate gravity better to achieve that)… However there are other possibilities too. Like artificial worm holes and such… I wonder if the human race didn’t waste its resources in pursuit of profit and power where would be now?