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NASA To Team Up With Russia For Future Mars Flight
xp65 writes "NASA has invited Russia to carry out a joint manned flight to Mars, the head of NASA's Moscow office said on Tuesday. Russia is currently planning to send its own expedition to Mars some time in the future. Marc Bowman told an international aviation and space conference in Moscow that the Mars mission should take advantage of the achievements made by the International Space Station and use a multinational crew."
It just doesn't fail. You all are completely incapable of spotting the scam, are you? There is no point to sending humans into space. The usefulness for exploration, for science, for "getting us of this rock" is exactly zero. There is absolutely nothing that is compelling or desirable from space exploration that requires the physical presence of a human. Robotic missions are incomparably more productive and far, far cheaper.
We, as a species, will never "get off this rock." Perhaps, at colossal expense and for no useful purpose, tiny groups of people (less than a hundred at a time) will be able to live briefly in lunar colonies, and a century later perhaps on Mars. They will be temporary, because it will be unsustainable.
But this adolescent infatuation with the magical-religious cult of sci-fi space adventures evidently has blinded almost all of you. It is a scam, a ploy to give billions upon billions of dollars to defense and aerospace industries. The point of spending 20 or 50 or 100 billion dollars to create a lunar base is not to create a lunar base, it is to spend 20 or 50 or 100 billion dollars. The lunar base is a pretext, the bait to get the suckers to open their wallets.
I don't really care much if you believe the "get off this rock" bullshit. Your magical-religious inclinations are a bore. I respect and defend your right to have them, but I certainly cannot respect the beliefs themselves. I strenuously object to having even more tax dollars squandered on bullshit, bloating the Federal deficit and national debt even more to enrich the same old ruthless sociopathic crooks.
Wake the fuck up! What are you, six years old?