Thread: What do you think? To Mars - and beyond

Originally Posted by Master Splinter

Anyway, NASA's budget is only 1% of US military/defence/war on terra spending and I like the idea of keeping scientists in jobs. It's not like they are highly paid, anyway.

Although I was not a direct NASA employee, during the late 80s my pittance of a salary was paid by NASA and it was tough going in an expensive Southern Californian economy. In the end I had to send SWMBO out to work for $6/hr to make ends meet.

Personally i think this is just awesome. I wish i was 20 yrs younger i'd have my hand up in a second. It would be 1 hell of a challenge & an amazing adventure. I think the cue to go would be huge. I beleive it is essential that the human race begins to expand out from our home Earth. We are at our best (and worst at times) when we are exploring & expanding. There are limited resources & limited space on Earth, we are already pushing the limits of this planet as it is - we as a people need to push out for our own survival. Plus the things we could learn from such an undertaking is enormous, & definitely worth the cost.

Space: the final frontier........

Originally Posted by Phil Spencer

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The idea is to build space craft for a one-way mission and have everything needed to sustain humans for one hundred years.

Sounds like a premise of any of the sci-fi movies where people go bonkers and start killing each other off. Could be NASA's idea of reality TV.

In some ways I pity the poor bloody universe if it does happen. Watched Kevin Mcleod in the slums of Mumbai last night and this morning I read that clerics in Saudi Arabia have issued a fatwa against women working on checkouts - apparently because they would mix with men unrelated to them.
The idea is great but only if we could leave our mistakes and stupidities behind.
Cheers,
Jim

That's why I suggested shipping out all religious types.

Originally Posted by Woodwould

That's why I suggested shipping out all religious types.

That makes more sense. Send all our stupidities and mistakes away and we'll stay. Pity any poor extra-terrestrial though. However, I did read an SF story where they crucified the missionary to see if he would come back!
Cheers,
Jim