Fly me to theâ€¦. Mars

mikeinie · Post by **mikeinie** » Tue Jul 21, 2009 1:54 am

I have been reading on this historical anniversary of the first walk on the moon the call for politicians to embrace the spirit of the Apollo projects to bring us to Mars.

Why?

We live in different times now, there is no cold war, the race to the moon was really a race between political ideologies; Capitalism and Communism, and the result was the Americans landing on the moon first, but only after a large number of Russian successes in space exploration.

Today we are faced with Global financial crisis, bankruptcies, poverty and countries that are trillions in debt, what would be the advantage to the world of spending incredible sums of money to invest in sending someone to Mars. If we are going to spend that kind of money, letâ€™s spend it on saving our own planet first.

Bill Sikes · Post by **Bill Sikes** » Tue Jul 21, 2009 4:07 am

mikeinie;1219034 wrote: what would be the advantage to the world of spending incredible sums of money to invest in sending someone to Mars

Research. Technological advance.

However, I am absolutely against the idea, as if there is some sort of life on Mars, it'll possibly be destroyed, and the environment there, which has been isolated for billions of years, be irrevocably contaminated. Use the moon for experimentation.

Post by **spot** » Tue Jul 21, 2009 4:29 am

mikeinie;1219034 wrote: what would be the advantage to the world of spending incredible sums of money to invest in sending someone to MarsThe survival of the species and its cultures. Staying on a single planet is a guarantee of species extinction. Establishing and spreading permanent self-sustaining colonies elsewhere is the only possible long-term answer to that issue. There's an entire galaxy devoid of intelligent life out there and we've not taken any backups at all.

Odie · Post by **Odie** » Tue Jul 21, 2009 5:37 am

There is no life whatsover on Mars.

Why spend billions just for publicity?

qsducks · Post by **qsducks** » Tue Jul 21, 2009 6:36 am

There are a few peeps I'd like to send to Mars permently....politicians...I could go on:yh_rotfl

Bill Sikes · Post by **Bill Sikes** » Tue Jul 21, 2009 7:10 am

Odie;1219071 wrote: There is no life whatsover on Mars.

How do you *know*?

Odie;1219071 wrote: Why spend billions just for publicity?

Technological advance.

Odie · Post by **Odie** » Tue Jul 21, 2009 8:12 am

Bill Sikes;1219125 wrote: How do you *know*?

Technological advance.

oh c'mon, there's been proof!:yh_rotfl:yh_rotfl

technological advance?

for what?

spend the money where its needed.

chonsigirl · Post by **chonsigirl** » Tue Jul 21, 2009 12:18 pm

Let's go to Mars! Going to D.C. and spending money on pork isn't getting us anywhere!

Post by **spot** » Tue Jul 21, 2009 12:22 pm

I don't think it's a US project chonsi, it's a planet-wide one.

chonsigirl · Post by **chonsigirl** » Tue Jul 21, 2009 12:24 pm

Ah, thank you spot. I think that would be even better. The days of the Cold War/space race mentality is hopefully over.

You mentioned all the technological advances from space-think of what they will come up with for the next leg of the journey!