Rudywalsh wrote:
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Science needs to pull its head out of its own bum hole and realize they have much more to learn than what they already know.
In 1975 we said that we would be walking on Mars by 2015, we’ve only just managed to keep a robot propped up long enough to scope out its landscape in 2012.
We are so much greater than we can imagine, but boy do we have a lot to learn...
The science of walking on Mars or the Moon existed in 1686 when Newton published Principia Mathematica. The issue here is NOT science. It is technology and its associated costs. The reasons we are not walking on Mars now are:
1. Our propulsion technology which is not far advanced past the Chinese rocket is inadequate.
2. The costs are astronomical.
3. There is no profit in going to Mars to offset the astronomical costs of getting there.
You will notice where there is profit we have lots of space activity. Communication satellites for example. Where there is profit there technology will go and there technology will be.
The Spaniards explored the New World because they expected to bring home gold from the New World. Profit was the motive.