I have to admit, I did not realize the Mars mission was to investigate the possibility of whether life has or could exist there.
WTF?
All that money, and the only purpose is to see if there is life there? Unreal!
When they began this project, I naturally assumed there was some worthwhile purpose to it, but I am corrected.
NASA trots out the search for life theme now and then, but that is mainly when they attempt to justify projects. It’s a waste since we know 90% sure that life is posible on Mars. Even 200 years ago it was thought there was not only life but civilization on all the planets, and the moon.
Personally I think there’s nothing wrong with searching for life beyond earth, particularly the microbial kind as it could prove extremely beneficial to our medical tech. Beyond that though, this mission has huge implications for manned space exploration if we can prove that water ice exists on mars.
All that money, and the only purpose is to see if there is life there? Unreal!
It almost sounds as if this Mars mission is, at least partly, religious motivated. The religion of Humanism, that is. God is the enemy of Humanists.