SvennoJ said:
Qwark said:
When we figure out how to pay for it and when there are actual added benefits of sending humans to Mars outside of it having a big technological dick as a country. We can do many things already with the drones we send to Mars, so what do we really need humans for on Mars to figure out.
If it's just to do it to show the world we van that's a dumb reason when our own planet is getting more inhabitable by the minute and funds should be spend to make earth more habitable instead of less. Although we also spend a shot load of funds on war and killing eachother so perhaps a country ends up doing it just for the heck of it and showing their tech, it might actually be plausible |
It's not just about ego, the tech developed for space missions helps a lot on Earth as well.
And yeah compared to spending on killing each other.... $750 billion that goes to the Department of Defense and $21 billion that goes to NASA.
If that was reversed we might already have scale-able fusion technology which will provide enough energy and knowledge to create strong magnetic fields.
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/07/19/google-chevron-invest-in-fusion-startup-tae-technologies.html
Google and Chevron were part of a $250 million funding raise announced Tuesday for TAE Technologies, a nuclear fusion startup with an unconventional strategy that has now raised a total of $1.2 billion.
Priorities are upside down
1. War
2. Space dick
3. Save the planet (or rather our way of life) |
Sadly, I think the only way the powers that be would care about advancing space travel would be if there was another Space Race.
