Posted on 11/10/2016 9:15:10 PM PST by MtnClimber
Experts suspect that President-elect Donald Trump’s space program will likely be focused on exploration with robotic probes and sending humans to Mars, using money diverted from global warming science programs.
“NASA should be focused primarily on deep-space activities rather than Earth-centric work that is better handled by other agencies,” Robert S. Walker and Peter Navarro, both senior advisers to the Trump campaign, wrote in an opinion piece published in SpaceNews. “Human exploration of our entire solar system by the end of this century should be NASA’s focus and goal.”
Industry analysts suspect that Trump will likely modestly increase NASA’s overall budget while slashing many programs supported by President Barack Obama.
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By jove you are right, my bad, she IS going to Uranus.
Nonsense. Man can’t breath above a certain altitude
or underwater too but that didn’t stop us from going
there.
This is good news to me, set a goal, excel, and find
a way. Improvise, adapt, overcome!
Global warming meh.
Why do you think there’s no way back?
Could start a moon colony and populate it with Clinton moonbeams. Could also send them all the illegal drugs confiscated by the police as an incentive to go! Shoot, Hillary could be the first Moon Queen with her utopian society and they could truly live in their make believe bubble. No carbon footprint, no lunar warming, what’s to lose? Here’s my $10.
Oh yes, it is worth it ... if the people are Clintons, Obamas, or Bushes and there is no other way to get rid of them.
Al Gore can be the compost toilet.
I am sure in her mind, she is already there.
Venus is,out. 800 degree surface temp and it rains sulfuric acid. No real minerals we cant find other places.
If we go we go outwards. Europa is probably the best chance of finding interesting stuff. Mars could be made a good outpost refuelling hop/stop in between. Potential there but probably not on a terraforming level, just not enough gravity to hold onto an atmosphere.
Why do we want to go down into another gravity well when we have just fought so hard to get out of one?
There is lots and lots of very interesting stuff floating around in the asteroid belt. We need a big ship and a few dozen people on it to take a long tour.
Gee going to Mrs instead of focusing on multi-sexual gendering, BLM, the environment, and Muslim relations - what does he think NASA is all about anyway???
There is no reason to go to Mars except to stoke our vain pride and say, “We did it”. There is no economic justification to offset the financial and human cost. Sending people there is not technically feasible; their muscles will atrophy in zero-gravity until they will be too weak to walk on Mars surface; they will die early deaths from radiation exposure; they may die on descent or fail to leave Mar’s surface. There is no practical way to colonize Mars. The fate of Jamestown ought to serve as a warning. Let’s prove the concept with a sustainable moon colony before attempting Mars.
Remember how Australia was initially settled?
Ceres is the fuel stop.
Yes, time to reread this!!!
In both cases, one is still protected by Earth's magnetic shield.
This is good news to me, set a goal, excel, and find a way. Improvise, adapt, overcome!
I agree. It's why I said "current technology".
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