[AnotherUnixGeek]

There’s no need to send people to Mars. First of all there is no life on that planet. Second robots can do everything humans can do and all we should be doing is to look for mineral resources.

There was no need for Europeans to go looking for the New World, either. First of all, they might have fallen off the edge of the world.

[NorthMountain]

There was no need for Europeans to go looking for the New World, either.

Christopher Columbus wasn't looking for a New World. He was looking for an ocean route to China and India because the traditional land route was menaced by mohammedans.

they might have fallen off the edge of the world.

Christopher Columbus, and pretty much everybody else at the time, knew that Earth is round(ish), and roughly how big it is.

But Christopher Columbus was a Christian ... a Catholic, no less ... and secularists just have to smear Christians for some reason, so they invent silly fables about what the never-to-be-sufficiently-damned Christians believe(d).