User:Ceridwyn/Whales on Mars
“In Soviet Russia, Whales send Mars to YOU!”
Whales on Mars is a complete documentary detailing the truth about whaling and what is really happening. It is not entirely clear on if this is all truth or a bunch of nonsense made up by a crazy person. Most evidence points to the former. This documentary can be viewed in its entirety on Youtube. [1]
The Full Story[edit | edit source]
The mission was simple, all they needed to do was send a whale to Mars. While this did seem simple, it was not so simple at all, some could say it was quite complicated. The US approached this by getting together a counsel of scientists. These scientists sat together and came up with a very simple system. The whales were simply placed in a long tube (similar to a cannon), and propelled towards Mars. The scientists encountered many problems with this, which will be outlined here.
Reasons[edit | edit source]
The reason as to why they would send a Whale to Mars was quite simple. They simply wanted to know what would happen if a whale was sent to Mars. It is rumoured they had come up with this idea while drunk, but the picture to the right shows this is very unlikely.
The Problems[edit | edit source]
Problem 1[edit | edit source]
The first problem they scientists had noticed when they sent up the first lot of whales was that they died a fair amount of time before even being launched into space. After 3 days of extensive investigation they realised the whales had no water. To test this theory , they sent 50 more whales, just in case. When they had realised this was indeed the problem, they decided to think of a solution. A week later they had done it. Their solution was quite simple, they would simply place the whales in a plastic bubble filled with water. This would have worked very well if it wasn't for the Problem 2.
Problem 2[edit | edit source]
The bubble idea seemed like it would work just fine. It looked like the whale would easily reach Mars with no problems at all. Nothing could stop the scientists from getting that Whale to Mars. They started celebrating before sending the whale to Mars. Later on that day after the party they had still not sent the whale to Mars. They were just about to do so when they found the whale dead inside his bubble. The scientists could not figure out why this would happen, 2 weeks of research were put in. After a lot of hard work they scientists had it worked out. Someone had forgot to fill the bubble with water. It was simple to solve this problem, the scientists simply filled the bubble with water. This however, was not the only problem they had encountered.
Problem 3[edit | edit source]
The 3rd problem the scientists encountered drove them insane as they could not figure out how to solve it. While the bubble was filled with sufficient water, the whale had nothing to eat, and of course died yet again. The scientists only took 300 whales to die before figuring out what was wrong. While this was great, they simply could not figure out how to solve this problem. The experts worked on this for months drawing complicated diagrams among other things to figure out the problem.
It was 3 months and 400 whales later when the scientists finally worked it out. The answer was quite complex but it worked brilliantly. They placed food inside the bubble.
Problem 4[edit | edit source]
This was probably the easiest problem to solve with the most effective solution so far. While the whale could eat and drink inside the bubble, he had no room in the bubble to excrete. The scientists considered this a very easy problem, the solution was incredibly obvious. It was so amazingly obvious what they had to do, and they did it. The idea was inspired from Yellow Submarine, the scientists simple took a hole out of their pocket and put it on the bubble. In other words, they used the ultimate solution by putting a hole in the bubble. To them it seemed brilliant, like the answer to all their problems, nothing could stop them from sending a whale to Mars.
Problem 5[edit | edit source]
This problem came as a suprise to the scientists. No one could see it coming, it left them in a state of shock. While the hole was a success in getting out the whale's excrement, it also let out all the water, the food, and then eventually, the whale. Since the scientists found this so suprising it took a while for them to work out a solution. However, one of the scientists designed a special tube that would only take out the whale's excrement while keeping everything else in. Each one of these cost $3.5 billion to manufacture. But enough were made to send another 400 whales by borrowing some money from the oil industry.
Problem 6[edit | edit source]
Now that the whale had water, food, and was able to do a poopoo, the scientists were pretty confident with themselves. They were so confident that they sent 500 whales in one blow. This was not smart however, as soon as the whales reached the surface of Mars the bubbles popped, killing the whales instantly. The scientists quickly found a simple solution, they decided to make the new bubbles out of Titanium.
Problem 7[edit | edit source]
They tried the new Titanium bubbles, confident nothing would happen, and that everything would go smoothly. However, it didn't. Seconds after being put in the bubble the whale died. In an attempt to figure out why this happened, the scientists repeated this 300 times, all with the same result. Instant death. They lazily figured it was simply allergic to titanium. They decided bubbles were way too dangerous, and so the next lot of whales, were sent up without bubbles at all.
Problem 8[edit | edit source]
The scientists quickly remembered why they needed the bubble. They worked all night trying to figure out something you could use to send whales in. Then it hit them, they would make the bubble out of cardboard. This idea seemed brilliant at 3:00AM in the morning.
Problem 9[edit | edit source]
What do you think happened? Cardboard can't exactly hold a huge whale, tons of water, plus food. It of course got soggy.
The scientists were now really stuck. They needed a material they could use to make whale bubbles. They talked to the people they thought could help.
Interview with NASA[edit | edit source]
A group of reporters approached NASA to find out their involvement with Whales on Mars. They replied: 'The whale people approached us late 2005, they were looking for a material suitable for space. We thought and thought about it. Eventually we got back to them and said "Did you try, a cardboard box?"'
The End[edit | edit source]
The Whales on Mars organisation was eventually closed down. Someone leaked information to the public, once the government found out about this, the shut down the whole operation.
Similar Experiments[edit | edit source]
A few little kids attempted to repeat the experiment, however, they did not have access to a cannon, so they just threw the whale, and they didn't have a whale so they used a pond whale. This whale succeeded in reaching Mars, however, once getting there nothing happened, as pond whales cannot move. The pond whales are still there and are being tracked by the US government, it is interesting to note these pond whales have not exploded thus far.