Posted on 06/29/2008 10:02:14 AM PDT by KevinDavis
The drive to Mars is on! The Mars Society and MarsDrive would like to announce a new era of collaboration between our two organizations as we aim for Mars. Recognizing that all groups and individuals have an important role to play in this most challenging of tasks, we will work together in strategic areas which help streamline efforts towards a human future on Mars. MarsDrive will be assisting in various selected Mars Society projects from time to time and doing its best to ensure a new spirit of co-operation exists and flourishes between Mars and space advocacy groups in general.
According to Frank Stratford, President of MarsDrive, "The challenge of humans on Mars is a complex one which will take all of us working together and the solutions will not come easily. I look forward to a future where space and Mars advocates can join together on projects common to us all and would encourage all space advocates to take a new look at what bridges we can build. MarsDrive is and always has been committed to building bridges of understanding and co-operation and I'm excited to collaborate with the Mars Society. Let's look to the future".
(Excerpt) Read more at marsdrive.com ...
Good. Fewer, stronger space advocacy groups will help.
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We should have never stopped going to the Moon. We’d likely be on or near having a manned Mars colony as well.
Some people just love to complicate their lives.
If they want to live in a hostile, bleak, boiling hot, boring desert, there’s plenty of places on earth you can get to without a rocket ship.
if were up to you, America would never have been discovered.
I agree.. Thanks to wonderful politicians like Fritz Mondale...
There’s a cost-benefit to the opening of any new habitation.
Europe was overpopulated, which made the settling of the new world profitable based on the cost of doing so at the time.
The cost of colonizing mars is all out of proportion to the number of people we can put there, especially since the earth’s population growth may peak long before we can—if ever—move millions of people to mars.
Colonizing mars—even with a handful of people—is a romantic fantasy. Considering the cost, there’d better be some good reason for doing it.
There will always be brave people who venture into the frontier, and their will always be the nay sayers that give their highly sensible reasons why it is foolish, impossible, not cost effective, childish, etc. that be YOU. The adventurous ones will accomplish things for mankind while the nay sayers will not.
We may not be ready to colonize this week, or next, but we must push forward and get there, then the rest will take care of itself, especially if it is found that there are financial rewards that overcome the cost, like mining the asteroid belt as one example.
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