Manned Mission to Mars is Idiotic
Bush's idea of a manned mission to Mars is one his most idiotic ideas. It is purposeless and counter-productive.
First, the technological problems are way beyond our current technology, and are basically problems that are a waste of time to bother solving. The biggest problem is simply HUMAN SAFETY.
Traveling to Mars, landing, taking off again and returning is almost breathtakingly dangerous. Furthermore, solving these problems is a stupid waste of time.
Why? Because by the time that these problems are solved, we will have thousands of cheap, expendable ROBOTS who will probably be better astronauts than humans. They will be millions of times more intelligent, have better vision, better hearing, and better brains. So what is the point in sending a human?
Secondly, by sending a robot, they avoid the enormous problem of transporting a hugely heavy and powerful rocket to Mars. Because of Mars HUGE gravitation, they will need almost as large of a rocket to get off of Mars as to get off the earth. That makes it almost impossible.
Thirdly, the whole IDEA of wasting money on a trip to MARS is totally IDIOTIC. America must continue to fight for the "high ground" above the earth. He who dominates space, dominates the earth. All that "love of humanity" stuff is a bunch of crap. See how fast THAT disappears in the next world war.
The idea of getting rid of the Space Shuttle program is ASTOUNDINGLY MORONIC. Only BUSH could be THAT dumb!!!
If anything, we should be working on building a redesigned Space Shuttle that is faster and cheaper than the current ones. They should have done that 15 years ago, when the last one blew up.
Fourth, the ONLY way that we can build monster interplanetary spacecraft in in-orbit factories. We need to develop a better space shuttle in order to build factories in orbit. Once the factories are built, then we can build the huge interplanetary "tankers" that will allow comfortable passage, and mineral tranport around the solar system.
One thing is for certain. Other planets, like Mars or even the Moon are going to contain minerals that are of ASTRONOMICAL value. The only way that we will be able to mine them is if we have orbital factories to build the kind of monster tankers that will be necessary to transport minerals.
Plus, shuttle technology will be key to the operations, since it will be necessary to have shuttles that are very fast and very powerful to transit between the planet's surface and the mining ships.
This is simply due to the fact that if you don't have to deal with getting off and on the planet's surface, it is a very simple thing to build a monster interplanetary spacecraft.
Fifth, what good does a direct Mars trip do? We went to the Moon in 1969. So what? What did it do for us? So we'll spend 78 guhzillion dollars and 30 years to get a man on Mars so that he can say "one small step for mankind", and hear the Martians say "there goes the neighborhood!".
Perhaps the only thing good about the idea is that Mars might be a good dumping ground for hardened criminals. Criminals sentanced to death, or sentanced to life in prison, could be given the option of taking a one-way bus trip to Mars instead.
Why not? I would think that it would be more fun to die on Mars than to die in the electric chair. And besides, much of the early colonization of "The New World" began by establishing prison colonies there.
To summarize, we should postpone the Mars project indefinitely, and focus on building a re-designed space shuttle. The shuttle should focus on providing transportation to and from the in-orbit space station/factory. Ultimately, this is where a Mars vehicle would be built. Probably 30 years from now.
Doing it now is idiotic.
Draft 2: 6/23/09
First, the technological problems are way beyond our current technology, and are basically problems that are a waste of time to bother solving. The biggest problem is simply HUMAN SAFETY.
Traveling to Mars, landing, taking off again and returning is almost breathtakingly dangerous. Furthermore, solving these problems is a stupid waste of time.
Why? Because by the time that these problems are solved, we will have thousands of cheap, expendable ROBOTS who will probably be better astronauts than humans. They will be millions of times more intelligent, have better vision, better hearing, and better brains. So what is the point in sending a human?
Secondly, by sending a robot, they avoid the enormous problem of transporting a hugely heavy and powerful rocket to Mars. Because of Mars HUGE gravitation, they will need almost as large of a rocket to get off of Mars as to get off the earth. That makes it almost impossible.
Thirdly, the whole IDEA of wasting money on a trip to MARS is totally IDIOTIC. America must continue to fight for the "high ground" above the earth. He who dominates space, dominates the earth. All that "love of humanity" stuff is a bunch of crap. See how fast THAT disappears in the next world war.
The idea of getting rid of the Space Shuttle program is ASTOUNDINGLY MORONIC. Only BUSH could be THAT dumb!!!
If anything, we should be working on building a redesigned Space Shuttle that is faster and cheaper than the current ones. They should have done that 15 years ago, when the last one blew up.
Fourth, the ONLY way that we can build monster interplanetary spacecraft in in-orbit factories. We need to develop a better space shuttle in order to build factories in orbit. Once the factories are built, then we can build the huge interplanetary "tankers" that will allow comfortable passage, and mineral tranport around the solar system.
One thing is for certain. Other planets, like Mars or even the Moon are going to contain minerals that are of ASTRONOMICAL value. The only way that we will be able to mine them is if we have orbital factories to build the kind of monster tankers that will be necessary to transport minerals.
Plus, shuttle technology will be key to the operations, since it will be necessary to have shuttles that are very fast and very powerful to transit between the planet's surface and the mining ships.
This is simply due to the fact that if you don't have to deal with getting off and on the planet's surface, it is a very simple thing to build a monster interplanetary spacecraft.
Fifth, what good does a direct Mars trip do? We went to the Moon in 1969. So what? What did it do for us? So we'll spend 78 guhzillion dollars and 30 years to get a man on Mars so that he can say "one small step for mankind", and hear the Martians say "there goes the neighborhood!".
Perhaps the only thing good about the idea is that Mars might be a good dumping ground for hardened criminals. Criminals sentanced to death, or sentanced to life in prison, could be given the option of taking a one-way bus trip to Mars instead.
Why not? I would think that it would be more fun to die on Mars than to die in the electric chair. And besides, much of the early colonization of "The New World" began by establishing prison colonies there.
To summarize, we should postpone the Mars project indefinitely, and focus on building a re-designed space shuttle. The shuttle should focus on providing transportation to and from the in-orbit space station/factory. Ultimately, this is where a Mars vehicle would be built. Probably 30 years from now.
Doing it now is idiotic.
Draft 2: 6/23/09
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