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To: BenLurkin

Having retired from 45 years in aerospace, I assert we won’t ever send man to Mars.

Too damned expensive and nothing to be learned that robots can’t tell us for 1/10th the price.

Colonizing is a joke.


3 posted on 11/26/2016 8:32:33 AM PST by G Larry (America has the opportunity to return to God.)
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To: G Larry

“Colonizing is a joke.”

Tell that to the large fauna living 60 million years ago ...


12 posted on 11/26/2016 8:43:38 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: G Larry

You know, it wasn’t exactly cheap or safe to get people across the ocean either.

Now we suffer if the 6 hour flight from NYC to London doesn’t have wi-fi.


16 posted on 11/26/2016 8:47:35 AM PST by VanDeKoik
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To: G Larry

Really? Well, if there’s no way to justify manned exploration of Mars on a “COST BENEFIT” basis, then we should not do this.

Maybe there’s some intangible benefit to sending men to Mars??

Among other things, it’s such a long journey there. Didn’t it take spacecraft such as Mariner 4 and Voyager 9 months to a year to get to Mars? I could envision astronauts being gone for a few years in such a case.


19 posted on 11/26/2016 9:02:21 AM PST by Dilbert San Diego
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To: G Larry

It would be far easier to colonize the Sahara desert, Antarctica or the bottom of the ocean than it would be to colonize Mars.

Maybe in a few thousand years.


20 posted on 11/26/2016 9:07:25 AM PST by Bubba_Leroy (Ding Dong the Witch is Dead!)
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To: G Larry

regardless...
we ARE going to mars.


25 posted on 11/26/2016 9:34:58 AM PST by MIA_eccl1212 (10 rounds 10 meters 10 seconds 10 centimetres T)
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To: G Larry
Having retired from 45 years in aerospace, I assert we won’t ever send man to Mars. Too damned expensive and nothing to be learned that robots can’t tell us for 1/10th the price. Colonizing is a joke.

Colonizing, AT PRESENT, is a joke.

26 posted on 11/26/2016 9:35:15 AM PST by Lazamataz (TRUMP WINS!!!! TRUMP WINS!!!! TRUMP WINS!!!! TRUMP WINS!!!! TRUMP WINS!!!! TRUMP WINS!!!!)
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To: G Larry
Having retired from 45 years in aerospace, I assert we won’t ever send man to Mars.

"Won't ever" is a long time. It implies no advancements "ever". Before 1947, some "experts" thought breaking the sound barrier in a manned aircraft would be impossible.

Current transit time from Earth to Mars is about 6 months for a probe, and that is without any ongoing boost during transit. Testing of EM Drives continue to yield positive results and adding one of them would reduce transit time to Mars to under 1 month.

29 posted on 11/26/2016 10:09:07 AM PST by Flick Lives (Les Deplorables Triumphant)
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To: G Larry
You must admit, shipping democrats to Mars is not a bad idea. They can experiment with social engineering cures to technical problems to their heart's content. Finding 10 leftist PHDs who can swap out a fuse or change a light bulb might be a stumbling block, but all things are possible with enough money.

In my 40 years in DoD engineering, I could number the Leftist techs, designers and engineers on one hand. Even then, most would vote democrat only because they wanted to avoid family arguments at Christmas.

Logic and Leftism are mutually exclusive.

51 posted on 11/26/2016 1:04:25 PM PST by jonascord (First rule of the Dunning-Kruger Club is that you do not know you are in the Dunning-Kruger club.)
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To: G Larry

Not to mention the decaying educational system simply will not result in effective missions to Mars.


55 posted on 11/26/2016 1:51:37 PM PST by CodeToad (Ding Dong, the Bitch is Dead!!!)
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