2716: Space Oddity

[jen_aside]

Char being the space-case he is, he will watch reruns of The Universe if they talk about Mars. [This isn't a criticism--I'll watch reruns of MythBusters if it's... ANY of them.] It's interesting, the amount of debate that goes into Mars, but the greatest debate is whether we should eventually colonize space, Mars being the most likely candidate for

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[fjorab_teke]

forty

[ex_tailsy]

Not fast enough as the correct answer has already been posted, but some clues:

1) You can easily eliminate everything over one hundred, as all of those numbers would include, as a subset, the numbers one through ninety-nine.

2) One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, and nine all fail the test, so:

3) The number must be a multiple of ten, and less than one hundred.

[digoraccoon]

I say go ahead and colonize Mars. We know of at least one alien race that apparently has faster then light travel (or they're located close by and invisible to us) and such a big undertaking could potentially unite people to work together who would otherwise not bother with each other's time.

[jenova_silver]

Space Colonisation: Lack of Political will is part of it.

FTL Travel: We haven't found the tech to allow us to handwavium inertia.

[jen_aside]

I like Fawx's post of how to solve to get the answer of FORTY. [Of course, as for me, I already knew the answer from other means.]