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NASA will never have the money to go to Mars

posted 12 years ago by Jeremy_brewer1
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With that rover on mars or waste more money to send anything out there. With the financial crisis the *beep* enjoy being in it will never happen.

[–] Wicked_Genius 12 years ago

No water and having almost no atmosphere would doom us

[–] barsoomian 12 years ago

Plenty of water. Just locked in the soil and frozen. Atmosphere enough for it to be comfortable during the daytime in the tropical regions too. Lack of a magnetic field however, is problematic...

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[–] Wicked_Genius 12 years ago

radiation would doom us, that is what i meant to say about lack of atmosphere

[–] joekill162 11 years ago

If the Curiosity drone find oil or gold on mars, they will quickly, try to find a way to put a US flag on the planet

[–] raf-33 11 years ago

Mars has a thin atmosphere and a magnetosphere so radiation on the surface would be a lot less than in open space.

Any space agency should have two current goals, efficient reusable vehicles and a base of operations on the moon. The moon is an abundant resource of Helium3, if you can transport that back to earth cost-effectively then any space agency could fund their campaign to explore any planet or moon, Mars, Europa, Titan...

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[–] cjzuhlke 11 years ago

Thas why any manned mission to mars would be a joint effort between the American, European, Russian, and Chinese space programs.

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[–] psdhart 10 years ago

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[–] KlausHergesheimer 11 years ago

as the man once said... "never is a very long time"

[–] bigBang8 10 years ago

They better do, i don't see us lasting on earth for more than a few thousand years really. We will simply self destruct. Sure if we die out, theres still enough time for earth and sun to evolve 4-5 human like species so it's not all loss. I just wonder if nuclear war happens, how it will affect that. In any case, however ridiculous colonization seems now it may actually be a real thing in the next few hundred years. We may not be able to relocate a lot of people to another planet but just enough to start a colony. Send resources to earth. If we can master colonization, insufficient resources would be a thing of the past.

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[–] franco_xxl 9 years ago

Isn't the problem with colonization on Mars, that how polluted or "destroyed" our Earth would ever become, it would still be a friendlier environment than Mars.

The resources to properly colonize any planet to living standards would be far beyond those needed to clean up our own backyard.
A mechanized settlement for taking care of resources perhaps, but anything more is just pure sci-fi.

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[–] xystophoros 9 years ago

This.

Not to mention the fact that we don't even have the economic will to send people beyond low earth orbit right now, let alone send a manned mission to Mars. We'll see if this privately funded Mars mission becomes anything more than a pipe dream, which is what it is right now.

Terraforming, meanwhile, is science fiction, and would take centuries anyway.