(February 12, 2019 at 3:28 pm)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: Sorry, but it wasn't practicality that scuppered the Moon program, it was people like Senator Proxmire and his "golden fleece" program. Devoutly anti-science, he attacked anything he couldn't understand. I sometimes think that went down to eggs benedict.
*shrug* If it were at all practical, it would be further along by now. We can send unmanned probes virtually anywhere and expand what we about our little corner of space. Sending humans to other planets gets us oh-look-we-sent-humans-to-other-planets, and precious little else.
It is possible to be pro-science and at the same time realize how stupid and impractical it is to try to colonize Mars.
Boru
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