Do you support sending humans to Mars?

Chris OConnor

Do you support sending humans to Mars? ...explain

Results (total votes = 17):


Yes	13 / 76.5%

No	4 / 23.5%

other	0 / 0.0%&n bsp

ADO15

Yes - so long as I can choose the passenger list and ensure there isn't enough fuel. :lol

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LanDroid

Yes, we need to harvest those viruses and unleash them as bio-weapons on earth. ::41

Frank 013

Yep, because we can.

fyvel

I voted "No", but my opinion is more complicated than that. Personally I would like to see humans on Mars. But at what cost? Could that money be better spent on improving people's lives?

All Vegetarian

This is boring!

riverc0il

waste of time and money. there is a reason the moon program ended. no need to send humans to mars just because we can do so without a scientific need to justify the costs (i.e. how much more scientific research could be done with a maned trip as opposed to robot).

Mr. Pessimistic

Of course we should. If it were not for the desire in humans to explore and expand, we would still be in Africa!

Mars would be a great addition to our knowledge...and would be a stepping stone to other things.

Of course it will take time. I do not think it is justified to spend money at any cost to make it happen as soon as possible (although that view makes it SUCK for me, for I will not see it happen).

It is not a waste of time or money if we are to expand our knowledge.

Mr. P.

The one thing of which I am positive is that there is much of which to be negative - Mr. P.

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Chris OConnor

Quote:
If it were not for the desire in humans to explore and expand, we would still be in Africa!

Greg Neuman

Yes, without question. The cost of exploring other worlds will be high, but the cost of not exploring them (i.e., eventual extinction) is far higher.

If you want to improve people's lives, invest in science. That's not an opinion, it's a fact.

G

"Dear Buddha: Please bring me a pony and a plastic rocket."

- Malcolm Reynolds, Serenity

Ruinean

Hey, if we can spend a trillion bucks looking for WMD in Iraq we can send people to Mars! At the rate we are inventing new dollars these days it would be a drop in the ocean to create the funds to go. And, humanity needs such a shot in the arm of it's imagination I think.

Just one of the good arguments in favor is that for the survival of humanity staying on the Earth only is like placing all your chips on 22 red at a roulette wheel. Going to the moon or Mars would be like putting the stack on 22/23 and getting out to the moons of Jupiter or even interstellar expeditions would be like placing the chips on black.

We are human and this means that no matter our geography we will always carry the seeds of our own destruction with us, but as we branch out and spread we raise our overall odds of remaining alive, because the odds will still be stacked for the house, but it would be like playing in several casinos at once.

Edited by: Ruinean at: 10/6/06 1:38 pm


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