While I agree with you in spirit, and space travel will likely never be Star Trek, in 1970, we sent manned missions to the moon. Since 1997, we have sent four unmanned but increasingly complex rovers to Mars, culminating in a seriously proposed (albeit with dubious dates of launch) potential manned exploration.
The technology exists to send a manned mission to Mars tomorrow, the trouble is in allocating some of the budget toward space exploration.
In 2010, we had a $1.03 trillion military budget to the $18.724 billion budget for NASA.
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The problem is not starving masses, it's where the money is being spent. If those figures were reversed, or even halved, we would have easily been able to launch a colony ship to Mars, 4 years ago.
The technology exists to send a manned mission to Mars tomorrow, the trouble is in allocating some of the budget toward space exploration.
In 2010, we had a $1.03 trillion military budget to the $18.724 billion budget for NASA.
The problem is not starving masses, it's where the money is being spent. If those figures were reversed, or even halved, we would have easily been able to launch a colony ship to Mars, 4 years ago.
