Slickwater wrote:

What the hell is the matter with
scientists today. The fact that we haven't colonized the moon yet and
had several manned missions to mars makes me want to puke. What the
heck is takin these chumps so long?

Don't blame the scientists.

Blame both the private sector and our elected representatives in
Washington. Neither has come up with a reason why a manned mission to
Mars is so urgently needed that it is worth funding it at this time.
Ditto for colonizing the Moon.

If the Viking probes to Mars in 1976 had found actual life forms there,
or if SETI succeeded, then America's (and the world's) view of the value
of space exploration might have changed.


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Steven D. Litvintchouk
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