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 is a joke.”
Tell that to the large fauna living 60 million years ago ...
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.
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.
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.
regardless...
we ARE going to mars.
Colonizing, AT PRESENT, is a joke.
"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.
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.
Not to mention the decaying educational system simply will not result in effective missions to Mars.