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Mars Foundation Solicits Congressional Help

posted by LaminatorX on Tuesday March 04 2014, @04:30AM   Printer-friendly
from the Boldly-going dept.

hubie writes:

"U.S. House of Representatives's Science, Space and Technology Committee had a meeting to discuss whether NASA should help out the Mars Foundation. The Mars Foundation scrapped their earlier plans to send two humans to Mars, and revised it to do a two-person fly-by. However, they want NASA help. They want a design modification to the Orion spacecraft and they want use of the Space Launch System. If this goes anywhere, it will be interesting how it is proposed that funding get allocated."

 
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  • (Score: 2, Insightful) by rts008 on Tuesday March 04 2014, @02:15PM

    by rts008 (3001) on Tuesday March 04 2014, @02:15PM (#10831)

    "Earth is our home. It's the only home we will ever be able to survive on in any sustainable way. If we screw it up, there is nowhere for us to go. Deal with it."

    We won't know if this is the only world we can live on in any sustainable way, unless we look for one.

    And considering expanding the human race to other worlds could be a prudent idea, considering how we've buggered this planet, and continue to do so in the name of profit.

    "Don't keep all your eggs in one basket", as the old saying goes...

    Not even taking the above reason into consideration, we could be wiped out by an asteroid or such. It's not like we know of every potential 'dinosaur killer' out there, we get surprised all the time by near earth trajectories by these things. Who knows how close we came to being wiped out in the past, before we had the ability to spot them. It's probably best for our sanity we don't know how close it might of been!

    Regardless of the above, there are some of us that can't help but explore the unknown out of insatiable curiosity.

    I suspect that urge may be a subconscious manifestation of some 'hard wired survival instinct' that appears to be inherent in most(if not all) living things in this world.

              "Deal with it."

    They/we are, in our own fashion....Deal with it.

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