Is sending humans to Mars a stupid idea?

I’ve been catching the series on Nat Geo cable channel titled, Mars…

It makes an excellent example of what we should not do. What we should do is get our own planet in order, else there will always be a profit motive along with political motivation to rape a planet that probably gives evidence that it was already made inhabitable by some mishap.

Hell, no... I'm not giving up...

Not as dumb as propping up evil despots in Central America to keep profits up for corporations.

We would learn a great deal overcoming the obstacles to a Mars mission. Just like we did leading up to the moon missions. Probably a lot of things we can’t predict at the moment.

We have so many things that need money here at home. This could easily wait. Space is not going anywhere.

…would be to send an entire party of corpra-dems to Mars and let Hillary become their first Martian Pesident.

Snark aside, i worry that should we not somehow get viable and self sustaining colonies on Mars, Mars’s moons, our moon and maybe some of our larger asteroids, humanity’s window for doing so may close permanently.

Now I don’t want to be mean about it… they can take what ever supplies with them they can fit in the space ship and if they can grow their own food like Matt Damon did in that movie, more power to them. But just get them off this planet.

Of course I’m talking about the inheritance leech 1% here. And the one thing they cannot take with them… their money. Not like it would do them any good on Mars anyway.

In fact – let’s send the entire republican party there today.  And leave them there…

I guess you all have never played DOOM.

You’d see what happens there.

On a lighter note, the 1%-ers would cry about the $$$ spent not waging war.

We need to heal our planet first. Then the moon would be a good place to learn how to live off world in a hostile environment. Maybe then we could think of Mars or other  places in the solar system to colonize.

I’m all for investing in learning new abstract knowledge. The effort itself leads to new scientific breakthroughs and technologies, and with climate change already here we’re going to need all of the help we can get from science.

We as a species can easily afford it, too. We just have to stop investing so much time and energy in killing each other to do it.

First things first, such as Medicare for All, free eduction, $20 min. wage, meaningful prison reform, and the like.

Like someone upstring said, space will still be there, once we take care of priorities here first.

Yah yah, what about the Russians?   To which I say tough bananas.  Let the Ruskies drain their treasury for a change.

Many of our issues here on Earth are never going to be solved. I’m sorry, but I am just being realistic. We are going to destroy ourselves if we limit ourselves to that. We also can’t put all innovation on hold until we solve something else. Should the Wright brothers have not try to fly and instead try to fight global poverty? Should we have not gone to the moon because our country was too caught up in a civil rights debate? Should we stop searching for a cure for cancer until we get everyone free healthcare?

Our species is also extremely lucky….so far. We have evolved during a period of stability. Stability both on Earth and in our solar system. The fossil and geological records though show it has not always been this way. And it won’t stay this way. Mother Nature can be more violent than humans have ever witnessed.

Yes…space will always be there. But we won’t.

just not anytime soon. What for?

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