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Old 04-08-2008, 03:46 PM   #34 (permalink)
Davey Moore
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we should have had a man on mars by now, If they were able to send a man to the moon that long ago why can't we go further, have we gotten dumber?
No, I mean sure we're able to, but is it worth it? Of course we put a man on the moon in 69, but after that first initial wave of enthusiasm for "hey gee whiz we're on the moon" it got boring. It's not like the 1600's where we discovered new continents with plenty of gold and native civilizations to rape, it was a bunch of things in space with lots of rocks. All in all, going to Mars isn't very sexy. The cost to put a man on Mars would be astronomical(pun pun pun) and quite frankly without us racing evil communists to get there, why bother.
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