(June 16, 2019 at 7:15 pm)Fake Messiah Wrote: Humans already have all the computer tech they need to land on Mars, so the actual barrier is this kind of attitude people have: "The only reason to send human beings to Mars is to be able to boast that we sent human beings to Mars."
Time for a dose of reality. We're not going to Mars, not in the foreseeable future. Why?
Nobody knows how to do it.
A really excellent article by Rob Manning, well worth a read. Yes it's 12 years old but very little has changed since then. Research into supersonic retro breaking has stalled and inflatable hypercone's are leaking badly.
We are not going to Mars.
It's amazing 'science' always seems to 'find' whatever it is funded for, and never the oppsite. Drich.