Ray Bradbury's Reasons to Go to Mars

An anonymous reader writes "Ray Bradbury's testimony to the Presidential blue-ribbon Commission, 'Moon to Mars and Beyond', covers a range of rather optimistic space-related topics, including why three Italians should be the first on Mars. But at age 83, Bradbury's next book, entitled 'Too Soon From the Cave, Too Far From the Stars' seems to set an overall vision that this is an in-between generation caught between the brutal and primitive and the advanced."

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[Anonymous Coward]

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Why 'ours'

[Anonymous Coward]

Just being a coward, and /. newbie at that, maybe someone can explain to me what is meant by 'our' as in 'our planet', 'our future', 'our resources', 'our eggs'.
Sometimes I wonder if some of you just play too many RTS games. Me, I take great offense to statements that imply that 'resources' (speak: taxes) are up for graps, a given, where everyone is allowed to 'spent' it all in discussion. How come nobody ever consideres that, yes, I would rather like to have my 100$ back instead of putting 'my' eggs in space, thanks a lot. Where 'my' actually means 'not mine, personally, but some other human surely'. I am sorry, that doesn't cut it for me. Go on your mars missions, but please waste your own money.
Also, living in a world where obviously harm in most cases is done by governments (any will do), remember DDT, remember hybrid corn, remember trade barries that cost 3rd world countries twice what they get from forgein aid, any and all wars, remember patents ( seemingly serving the markets, they are still very artificial construction), I just can't understand the undying faith you people put in 'yours'.
How can you even think that there is a chance in hell that the state won't fuck your so very important space colonization scheme right up, like it always does.