Trump wants to send man back to moon, on to Mars

Associated Press ^ | Dec 11, 2017 4:14 PM EST

[higgmeister]

Yes!

[lgjhn23]

I’d be thrilled just to send a bunch of libtards, MadMoFlakes and SnowFlakes to Mars....with a one-way ticket.

[Ciaphas Cain]

Moon? Cool. But Mars? Lots of new evidence lately that it would practically be a death sentence for any human sent that long distance. Arriving at Mars while covered in tumors isn’t going to appeal to many people.

[crosdaddy]

Might appeal to the Martians, more to nibble on.

[rfp1234]

Just send Sheila Jackson Lee. And keep her there until she completes her mission: finding the Mars Rover.

[dfwgator]

I thought it would have been "President" Schwarzenegger that would have us going to Mars....

[tumblindice]

Sometime tomorrow a federal judge will reverse his directive and order that the money be spent instead on fighting climate change.

[Fiji Hill]

Moon? Cool. But Mars? Lots of new evidence lately that it would practically be a death sentence for any human sent that long distance. Arriving at Mars while covered in tumors isn’t going to appeal to many people.

"If God intended we should go to Mars, why'd he put it so far away?"--Billy Hughes

[JoSixChip]

The future is space exploration. If America is not first, or we don’t survive obumber, we’re done for.

[beethovenfan]

I suggest Pelosi and Schumer as first astronauts.

[G Larry]

Let’s assume the capsule has 6 seats and can launch in 2020.....

Who do we send?

[doug from upland]

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Before we went to the moon there was a lot of "new evidence" that the lander would sink into the dust that MUST have accumulated on the lunar surface, never to be seen again. And then there was the trip through the Van Allen belt that would assuredly result in early death at best and instant death at worse.

People have always cried that any new exploration is doomed to failure and death. Sometimes they are even right. If Columbus had not chanced to run into the Americas he would have killed off his entire crew.

But people keep flinging themselves into the abyss flapping their arms as hard as they can. It is what is programed into human nature. And mostly we, against all odds, manage to fly.

[TChad]

“Great again” means “great again.”

[logi_cal869]

I have to pose this: Why are most people intentionally-ignorant of cosmic rays and the protection afforded by our magnetosphere?

Underground Moon bases are one thing: We can mine H3. Mars is a one-way trip with current technology.

Even educated millenials fall for this crap; I just don’t understand why, but neither do I understand stupid...I just know that it exists.

[sparklite2]

Before we went to the moon there was a lot of “new evidence” that the lander would sink into the dust that MUST have accumulated on the lunar surface, never to be seen again.

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There was no such evidence. You’re thinking of Arthur C Clarke’s book Fall of Moondust.

[kaehurowing]

Send Jane Fonda to Mars

[Olog-hai]

After her stint in Gitmo, then sure.

[cicero2k]

Yawn. Presidents since Nixon said similar proclamations and nothing happens.

Manned Mars missions are overkill. Mars will never be a viable location for human settlement, other than science for centuries.

We’ve been in Antarctica for a century and there are few artists, musicians, factories, schools, city halls and hospitals there today.