Road to Mars

[ciphergoth]

"As someone who takes incredible pride in the achievement we made both as a country and as a species on July 20, 1969, I can say without reservation that I am in favor of a manned mission to Mars. [...] That is why the Bush administration's recent announcement of a mission to the moon and then to Mars enrages me."



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Comments

[ciphergoth.livejournal.com]

Yes, TBH I'm pretty sure I'm not in favour of sending people to Mars at the moment, cynical electioneering or otherwise. I think that space elevators are also way too hard right now, but if huge amounts of funds were going to be diverted to space I'd find that a far more inspiring project.

[valkyriekaren.livejournal.com]

Yes, but big rockets going WOOOSH! into the sky impresses the peasantry no end.

[babysimon]

Some people is NASA are saying that space elevators could be practical in twenty years, if the current rate of progress in C₆₀ technology can be kept up.

[pavlos.livejournal.com]

I just dont think space is a good target. It has some attractive properties of targets (impressive, diffiult, verifiable) and also many bad ones (competitive, wasteful, irrelevant, etc.). I think space travel would be a wonderful by-product of a technologically and politically advanced society, i.e. not ours.