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Mars Missions Are A Scam
Last week, the nonprofit reality-television project Mars One announced its selection of 100 volunteers who may get one-way tickets to Mars. It’s only the latest in decades of celebrated Mars colonization projects. And just like all the rest, this one is unlikely to ever happen, experts say. “It looks like a scam,” John Logsdon, a space policy expert at George Washington University in Washington, D.C., told BuzzFeed News.
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I'm curious to know how John Lodgson and Alan Steinberg have more credibility than anyone else in this matter?
There are always going to be people with perfectly good reasons why we can't or shouldn't do something, but we have to make an effort.
As far as the question of providing one solid rational for going to Mars, the responses of prestige and inspiration are BS.
Life on this planet is becoming increasingly unsustainable. Link Link Link We may already be past the point of no return. Link We need to TRY to become a multi-planet species. If our first couple attempts to get off the planet are failures, that's OK in the long run, as long as we are improving. If the four Mars-One Settlers make it to Mars and live for 68 days, they will have lived on mars for 68 days longer than anyone else! That's progress.
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