RE: Mars
February 12, 2019 at 6:29 pm
(This post was last modified: February 12, 2019 at 6:35 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
The colonization of mars is a longer term goal than any cost benefit analysis that plays out in the span of a human lifetime, or even many human lifetimes, can address. As far as learning about a place is concerned, there will probably never be a time where sending a human is the better of two viable options..one of which being not sending a human.
Sending someone to the moon..though, did capture funding. It's probably not a coincidence that this funding has tapered off as the prestige of those manned missions is forgotten. Elon Musk is a nutter who only started space x to escape the coming apocalypse, so here again we see the value of that goal.
(there are certainly folks who will tell you that the only thing better than sending a robot, if you can swing it, is sending a person -and- a robot..we work pretty well together)
Sending someone to the moon..though, did capture funding. It's probably not a coincidence that this funding has tapered off as the prestige of those manned missions is forgotten. Elon Musk is a nutter who only started space x to escape the coming apocalypse, so here again we see the value of that goal.
(there are certainly folks who will tell you that the only thing better than sending a robot, if you can swing it, is sending a person -and- a robot..we work pretty well together)
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