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PJMcK

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5. Decent ideas you have there, exboyfil

Reply to exboyfil (Reply #3)

Wed Dec 26, 2018, 10:30 PM

Dec 2018

From a practical perspective, that's not going to happen. Neither are the colonizations of the Moon and Mars. There isn't the national interest to support the incredible costs are prohibitive.

At the height of the Apollo program, NASA's budget was about 4% of the national budget. Today it is something like 0.025%. The kind of money needed isn't being spent and most likely won't be budgeted.

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Apollo Astronaut: It Would Be "Stupid" to Send People to Mars [View all] Duppers Dec 2018 OP

I tend to think the same about Mars and the moon, Control-Z Dec 2018 #1

Colonization is impractical exboyfil Dec 2018 #3

Decent ideas you have there, exboyfil PJMcK Dec 2018 #5

Money and mining. Mining and money. Drill baby drill and all that stuff. nt GemDigger Dec 2018 #2

Asteroids exboyfil Dec 2018 #4

Not practical as even Mars has a gravity well and anything mined would have to cstanleytech Dec 2018 #7

I agree as the priority should be on investigating methods of making faster trips to cstanleytech Dec 2018 #6

I agree but we are a species hell bent on exploring. Javaman Dec 2018 #8

The same was true then. Igel Dec 2018 #9