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Forums - Politics Discussion - Anyone else excited that we are finally seriously working on going to Mars?

Lrdfancypants on 24 September 2016
spurgeonryan said:

http://futurism.com/its-official-were-going-to-mars/

 

 

Before I know they were doing tests and scientific study and the rover was there. But now we actually seem to be putting down some money.

 

Anyone excited? Any problems you see getting in the way? 

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KLAMarine on 24 September 2016

Seems like a waste of money to put people on Mars. Sending robots over to Mars should be enough I think and less life-threatening.



Baryonyx on 24 September 2016

It's probably a money-hoax.

USA is broke, fix the economy or it will collapse and drag the entire world down into a global depression and it's now obviously more important to travel to Mars instead... Am i the online one who can see the dilemma, the problem with this?

Keep on spending cash you don't have...



 

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WagnerPaiva on 24 September 2016

I imagine it is such a hard thing that the same amount of money could be used to fix every single problem we have down here. So, no.



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alternine on 24 September 2016

We've already been to Mars. I bet they saw and found some weird shit and the public isnt ready to be told yet lol.



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SvennoJ on 24 September 2016

20 billion isn't much compared to the military budget (582.7 billion plus another overseas contingency operations budget of 58.8 billion)

The moon landing did wonders for morale and also for new technologies. Imagine what a Mars mission can do today with modern media coverage. Much better than focusing on the next terror attack to 'unite' the country.



poklane on 24 September 2016

When it comes to Mars we should do what Elon Musk once said, just to see what happens (skip to 1:35)



Acevil on 24 September 2016
SvennoJ said:
20 billion isn't much compared to the military budget (582.7 billion plus another overseas contingency operations budget of 58.8 billion)

The moon landing did wonders for morale and also for new technologies. Imagine what a Mars mission can do today with modern media coverage. Much better than focusing on the next terror attack to 'unite' the country.

People do not know about new technological benefits when comes to Space travel. A lot of people believe money spent, is money lost. 



 

The Fury on 24 September 2016

It's great that we are talking about space again, through the 90s and 2000s, humanity ignored it. Now with space tourism and the potential of technology to take some humans to Mars it's an amazing thing.

However, not at the cost. People going there to not come back? To die there? No, not worth it. Let's develop the ability to live in space with artificial gravity (rotationl motion) and work out how to get people back before hand.



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Soundwave on 24 September 2016

Space travel is vital to the eventual survival of the human species. We need to invest in it, it's just that simple.

We can live on this planet for another 200 years or so, but eventually we're going to need to be able to diversify our population to other places to ensure singular events (like an asteroid smashing into earth, some type of disease, or a nuclear war) doesn't wipe out civilization.

We're not meant to stay here forever, probably some portion of someone's grandkids or great grandkids in this very thread will be born outside of Earth. So we're only 2-3 generations away IMO.