[Analyzing Inconsistencies]

Here's what I believe more than either of the two abovementioned assertions:

"We could probably repay our record high $6.9 trillion dollar national debt with the benefits resulting from less inefficient colonization efforts on the Moon and Mars. Such breakthroughs would pertain to energy production, the biotech sector, robotics, mining, chemistry, and telemedicine, etcetera. One also cannot overlook exploration´s exciting ability to potentially inspire students to eagerly embrace math & science like they did during the Apollo Era when folks like Bill Gates, Steve Jobs and Amazon.com's Jeff Bezos initially fell in love with such subjects. We could even learn to increasingly view others as fellow Earthlings, not enemies, while we struggle together against the shared
hardships of the unknown."


On a different note, Http://www.Alexa.com's critiques say that high-browed conversations are far less frequent here at Free Republic because of the rampant banning of certain independently thinking participants. I'm still forming an opinion regarding that assessment.

[U S Army EOD]

Well just jump right in there and start that company and write me from Mars. There is an old Marine Corp recruiting poster that shows this Marine looking at this guy reading a newspaper. He says to the civilian, "We don't read about history, we make it".

So now is your big chance.

(PS: The reason the Marine doesn't like to read about history is probably because most Jarheads can't read).