Re: Space Policy: Why Mars should be our top priority.

On Mon, 13 Apr 2009 03:28:49 +0000, Derek Lyons wrote:

Marvin the Martian <marvin@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Mon, 13 Apr 2009 01:30:33 +0200, jacob navia wrote:

Marvin the Martian wrote:

Then Get your ass to Mars!

http://OnToMar.org/forum/


(1) Mars is beyond current technology. Only machines can live in
there.
Any human expedition to Mars is just science fiction.

Actually, NASA was planning on going to Mars right after Apollo, back in
the early 1970s. This technology is almost 40 years old.

Planning on doing something is not even remotely connected to the
ability to do it. Folks were planning to go to the moon in the 40's,
and 50's - despite the lack of technology to do so. It is very
instructive to look back and see how very wrong they were about so many
things.

D.

There wasn't much more that they had in the 1950s that they didn't have
on May 25th, 1961 when Kennedy gave his moon speech.

Your defeatism and can't do attitude is noted. You're off the team.



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