RE: Moon is part of Mars
June 10, 2019 at 3:59 am
(This post was last modified: June 10, 2019 at 4:00 am by Fake Messiah.)
You really think that something like Mars project to land people on Mars would not inspire people to get interested more in science? I mean it is said that Apollo program inspired generation of youth to enter science and engineering. The number of science graduates in the US doubled in the 1960s at every level.
And if there would be some solution to have people for extended period of time on Mars their future would depend critically upon the progress of science and technology, premium on intelligence, practical education.
If it was done in US then it could even draw more scientists from other parts of the world.
Also humans on Mars could do much more exploration than any robot. I mean send Opportunity and Curiosity into the Rockies and it is likely thousands of years would pass before they find a dinosaur fossil or a stromatolite. And if astronauts managed to find fossils of some organisms that lived on Mars it would no doubt capture human imagination like nothing ever before.
But reality is that it is probably beyond any politician in US to ever organize such feat. I mean it would take congress and senate to agree as well and people, and when ever there is a talk about some space program people usually react like "Why waste all that money on that?"
Even Trump in that tweet complains "For all the money we are spending" on NASA(?) and yet NASA is getting like 1% of overall federal budge,t but even that seems to most people as "too much". People never react similarly when they see SR-71 or B-2 Spirit, and it is something that Carl Sagan even try to "fight" against.
And if there would be some solution to have people for extended period of time on Mars their future would depend critically upon the progress of science and technology, premium on intelligence, practical education.
If it was done in US then it could even draw more scientists from other parts of the world.
Also humans on Mars could do much more exploration than any robot. I mean send Opportunity and Curiosity into the Rockies and it is likely thousands of years would pass before they find a dinosaur fossil or a stromatolite. And if astronauts managed to find fossils of some organisms that lived on Mars it would no doubt capture human imagination like nothing ever before.
But reality is that it is probably beyond any politician in US to ever organize such feat. I mean it would take congress and senate to agree as well and people, and when ever there is a talk about some space program people usually react like "Why waste all that money on that?"
Even Trump in that tweet complains "For all the money we are spending" on NASA(?) and yet NASA is getting like 1% of overall federal budge,t but even that seems to most people as "too much". People never react similarly when they see SR-71 or B-2 Spirit, and it is something that Carl Sagan even try to "fight" against.
