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Bill In U.S. House Plans Manned Mars Mission
maddogsparky writes "Spaceref.com has a copy of a bill laying out a roadmap for NASA to send a manned mission to Mars by 2022. Highlights include an manned asteroid landing, building a research outpost on one of Mars' moons and actually providing funds to start mission planning."
This week, over 600 people died in India as a consequence of the worst heat wave ever recorded. This warming is a consequence of the use of fossil fuels.
The nuclear power industry has a safety record never matched by any other human activity: just *one* fatal accident in more than 40 years of commercial activity, with 31 deaths in the immediate aftermath and 9 more deaths of cancer in the region (Eastern Europe) in the following decades. This means that, during this week alone, non-nuclear power has killed 15 times more people than nuclear power has killed in all history.
Yet, those fucking luddites with their scare-marketing tactics have convinced Humanity that nuclear power is a terrible thing which must be avoided at all costs. Nah, Humanity has a looong time to learn before a reasonable percentage of us know enough science to be able to make any rational decisions.
I'm all for Democracy, as long as it's about things that can be decided by common sense. When it comes to science and technology, we need some sort of meritocracy, or blind fear of the unknown will send Humanity back to the Middle Ages.