GO Mavs wrote:
"kT" wrote in message
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GO Mavs wrote:

I agree about that being a fault of Bush. There is no reason we need to
send men to Mars or set up a space station on the Moon.

We have learned there is a ton we can do with cameras, machines, robots,
and magnetic and inferred technology. Going as far as we can into space
should only be funded privately.
Actually, no, there is a dire need for remote sensing of the Earth from
Earth Orbit, and manned space flight for future asteroid deflection
missions, which is most easily simulated and tested in Earth orbit.

Bush clearly got the destinations wrong (Ceres, Phobos and Deimos, and the
asteroids immediately come to mind), the reason for doing it wrong,
(manned space exploration is meaningless, protecting the planet Earth
makes far more sense) and the cost (which is also irrelevant now that Bush
has effectively bankrupted US). Americans can do better than that.

I have no problem with manned space flight. I am talking about going on a
journey through the solar system or at least Mars with manned space flight.

But going to the asteroids is ok, since barring that, they will be
definitely coming here. Better to fight them there, otherwise we'll have
to fight them here. Ceres is a ****ing planet already too, a hell of a
lot easier planet to land on than Mars, and a hell of a lot more
interesting and mysterious too. With all those Mexican Americans
breeding like rabbits, and America being a third world country and all
now, we're definitely going to need another planet, but Mars isn't it.

George W. Bush couldn't even get the destination right.

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