Posted on 03/05/2005 10:41:22 AM PST by ambrose
A human on Mars. I was going to volunteer Hitlery Clinton, but it says human.
Who will be going?
Since this is a European endeavor, I think Chiraq should be first.
For now our next challenge is a successful space shuttle mission.
Zzzzzz..... that is soooooooooooo... 1981....
Sheesh, it is 2005...
Its not a challenge, its a waste of money! Think about the time from when we first learned to fly to landing on the moon spanned over 60 years. For the last 30 we've been wasting our time and money on a glider that hasn't produced jack crap!
Bingo.
we probably ought to make sure there is no life on Mars before we send anyone there in person.
Wouldn't want to kill all the Martians with Chicken Pox, eh?
or more importantly, kill all the Earthlings with Martian Pox.
Don't send a human, send a Democrat.
I am probably wrong but wouldn`t it take quite a bit longer than that.
But it is a proving ground with the ISS that will allow us to live and work in space for long periods of time.
You cant run until you know how to walk.
As for being a waste of money, just the Hubble Mission alone was worth the data that has been obtained.
I don't think the Hubble was a waste of money. Mars on the other hand...
The Hubble could have been launched from a conventional rocket booster for half the price like skylab, so the shuttle had nothing to do with its success other than dropping it off and fixing its lens. The truth is that payload capacity is huge compared to a disposable rocket booster. The Shuttle program has produced nothing in comparison to the Gemini and Apollo missions, and we lost a total of 3 astronauts compared to 14 with this high tech glider! You can only study rats in zero gravity for so many years to realize that the taxpayer is pissing their money away on an organization that has no imagination or spirit for adventure anymore. There uses to be a saying of "No Buck Rogers, no bucks!" The shuttle program is immune to that saying! Just a bloated diversity program to show how races and genders can fly gliders in space. We should have a base on the moon by now. All were doing is orbiting a gliding semi. woopie!
You nailed it!
It could work both ways you know.
But we would have to worry about possibly disrupting a Martian eco-system.
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