Send seniors on one-way trip to Mars?
 

I really don't know what to think of this....

Send 60-year-old astronauts to Mars on one-way trip to save money say scientists | Mail Online

I dont support space travel to be honest. I think it's a waste of billions of dollars more than anything. We landed on the moon decades ago and I don't really see the benefit to be honest.

BUT, if they are going to explore Mars, then I think this is a good idea. Obviously the people going to Mars would know they aren't coming back and that their lives will end on Mars, away from their families. But if that is something they are comfortable with, then so be it.

Like I said though, I don't really understand why we are even exploring Mars anyways. I don't think starting human colonies on another planet is going to work.

But maybe we should still try to colonize. We're running out of time on Earth and if there's even a small chance that Mars could be made inhabitable, it's definitely worth it.

We don't know exactly how much time is on Earth, but I'm actually pretty content with jst letting things run its course.. and when humanity is gone, then it's gone. Who knows when that will be or how it will happen, but the idea of colonizing another planet just seems so far-fetched for me. Is it really that plausible? To eventually send like millions of people to Mars? It would take unbelievably long to set up a society on another planet, and I feel like it's just a ton of money spent on something that isn't realistic.

I'm sure your kids will appreciate that sentiment, and their kids too, and their kids too...

*shrug*

I'm just not concerned with it. Doesn't matter when the world ends, there's gonna be billions of people wiped out when human life ceases to exist on Earth anyways. I'd rather use those billions of dollars on nearly anything else than a space program which hasn't produced benefits for the amount of money being spent.

Eventually I think humanity is going to come to an end. Not really worrying about my great, great, great, great, great granchildren who are hundreds of years away from being born.

If humanity is going to come to an end, why not use millions of dollars? Money won't matter when/if we're all wiped out.

Because that money could be used to better the lives of people right now, instead of being wasted on the space system...

What could we spend THAT much money on to make our lives better? We're born, we get educated, we get a job, procrastinate a little and then die.

What could we use excessive amounts of money on right now to make our lives better?

Tons of things. Put more money into schools, programs for kids, more money towards hospitals... Pretty much anything would be better than just completely wasting it with the space program. Do we have anything of great value to show for the billions of dollars spent?