Ares was a rather violent Greek God of war. Ares is a popular P2P filesharing system. Ares is a rocket designed by NASA that will, hopefully, be released in 2019.

Which of the above statements is true? All of them!

Ares the Greek god of war – one of a number of Greek Gods of war – was renowned for being particularly nasty, particularly bloodthirsty, and very, very loathsome. Even the other Gods didn’t like him and they were usually pretty, ahem, open minded.

NASA liked the name Ares and used it to christen one of their rockets. Perhaps they were planning to scare the living daylights out of any Martians that they came across? Unlikely unless the Martians were on the moon at the same time as the Ares rocket, because that is where it is headed.

The popular filesharing system Ares is perhaps the most commonly used of all three meanings. Not only is Ares popular, it is very good at its job.

Long live Ares, in all its forms!