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How further do you think we should continue to go with Space exploration?  

Is it all really worth it/necessary?  


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Man do I have mixed feelings about this..pardon me while add my two cents..
I, more that anyone, have always wanted to see man walk on other planets, watched & read enough sci-fi to dream the dream, and we're more capable now to actually make the journey (although it would still be a very long trip)..

But once I look around to all the disorder and chaos of the present time and place, I really think we need to focus on our problems and issues on this blue planet (while it's still blue) first.

I hate to say it, but man has a terrible history when it comes to exploration and the resulting explotation..ask the Incas or Aztecs what they thought about the Spainards exploring, and then "discovering" their land and the destruction, disese & slavery thereafter..ditto Columbus & native Americans.

It would be awful to see Mars or other planets spoiled by the greed and ignorace of man..what will hapeen if we colonize?
Will we savor the natural wonder of it all or start raping the land, pave it over and put up a Starbucks/Kinko's/Domino's at the fist chance? Are we going to argue over land (as man has always and still does today), which country gets what part of Mars? Instead of WWIII, do we have Mars WarI?

I guess the question should be..Does man have the right to explore? And what does he do thereafter?
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Oh heck! I love sci-fi and the whole Star Trek idea of "Space, The Final Frontier..." sounds very cool.

However, I find myself agreeing here with gumbypiz.

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Man do I have mixed feelings about this..pardon me while add my two cents..
I, more that anyone, have always wanted to see man walk on other planets, watched & read enough sci-fi to dream the dream, and we're more capable now to actually make the journey (although it would still be a very long trip)..

But once I look around to all the disorder and chaos of the present time and place, I really think we need to focus on our problems and issues on this blue planet (while it's still blue) first.

I hate to say it, but man has a terrible history when it comes to exploration and the resulting explotation..ask the Incas or Aztecs what they thought about the Spainards exploring, and then "discovering" their land and the destruction, disese & slavery thereafter..ditto Columbus & native Americans.

It would be awful to see Mars or other planets spoiled by the greed and ignorace of man..what will hapeen if we colonize?
Will we savor the natural wonder of it all or start raping the land, pave it over and put up a Starbucks/Kinko's/Domino's at the fist chance? Are we going to argue over land (as man has always and still does today), which country gets what part of Mars? Instead of WWIII, do we have Mars WarI?

I guess the question should be..Does man have the right to explore? And what does he do thereafter?
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Good Point.

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You make a good point, Gamblefish.  Although, I wouldn't mind living to see man walk on Mars.
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Thanks Dag...I wouldn't mind seeing a man walk on Mars either. Maybe Saddam or Osama... ;D

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Thanks Dag...I wouldn't mind seeing a man walk on Mars either. Maybe Saddam or Osama... ;D


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Without the oxygen masks? ;)

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It would be awful to see Mars or other planets spoiled by the greed and ignorace of man..what will hapeen if we colonize?
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Already happened.  On Mars there are a couple hundred kilograms of junk already on it's surface in the form of dead exploratory craft.  Not to mention the radioactive waste left there by the Viking spacecraft of the 70's.  Only the outer planets are 'clean' -- so far.  Hmm.. I just had a thought, maybe aliens have been here after all, they just cleaned up after themselves when they left.  ;)

Want a peek at a likely possibility if attitudes aren't changed?  Look to the garbage on Mt.Everest.