In article ,
says...
According to BBC Online:-

President George W Bush will announce proposals next week to send Americans
to Mars

but . . .

unless and until we have robotically established conclusively that there is
or is not life on Mars, we can't put humans on the planet because they will
inevitably bio-contaminate it.

Perhaps with some extremophilic organism. However, it would be very hard
for many organisms to survive the extreme cold, severe radiation, etc.
It may be possible, but I doubt that life will exactly flourish there.
We aren't even sure that there would be the necessary organic substances
to support simple living organisms.



Anyone agree?

I agree that there are a variety of reasons that we are not ready to go
to mars yet, except maybe on Zubrin's plan. Space exploration should not
be a stunt. Oh and NASA doesn't need a moron like Bush telling them how
to do their jobs either.






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