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Fact is: space exploration has been on the back burner compared to everything else. Imagine what could have been achieved if the budget for space exploration had matched the US's military budget for all these decades. There really isn't any reason we can't work on both.
originally posted by: The Shrike
How is your life going to change and your knowledge improved because there is bacterial life outside of Earth? We don't need any more space exploration. Enough is enough and not one single person has benefitted from looking at Saturn or Jupiter or even Mars when we have this beautiful planet that has not been fully explored? And now with the Georgia Guidestones suggesting that humanity be culled from billions to 500,000,000 we don't need to colonize any other planet.
How is your life going to change and your knowledge improved because there is bacterial life outside of Earth?
Enough is enough and not one single person has benefitted from looking at Saturn or Jupiter or even Mars when we have this beautiful planet that has not been fully explored?
And now with the Georgia Guidestones suggesting that humanity be culled from billions to 500,000,000 we don't need to colonize any other planet.
originally posted by: blackcrowe
I can't see any reason to leave this planet.
Surely it's easier to fix Earths problems. Than to live in an artificial situation.
Why does leaving Earth need to be based on problems. Can we not just leave Earth because "Why not?" or "Because we can?"
It's like asking why do you bother posting on ATS?
originally posted by: jjkenobi
Or maybe to keep us fighting amongst ourselves down here on Earth?
originally posted by: Phage
a reply to: Archivalist
They pursue water sources and currently alive, life forms.
Actually, that's not what they "pursue."
mars.nasa.gov...
originally posted by: Archivalist
I'm in the list of crackpots, that believe Mars currently hosts maco-cellular life.
So, what reasons are good reasons that JPL and NASA would choose to withhold that disclosure?
#6 Duress - Maybe there is some "invisible hand" preventing that disclosure, from behind the scenes.
They suspect Mars became habitable 130 MILLION YEARS before earth did.
www.space.com...
New results from NASA's MAVEN spacecraft suggest that the Red Planet lost most of its carbon dioxide-dominated atmosphere — which had kept Mars relatively warm and allowed the planet to support liquid surface water — to space about 3.7 billion years ago.
I remember reading that Mars at one point came extremely close to earth.
originally posted by: Phage
a reply to: reject
I remember reading that Mars at one point came extremely close to earth.
Not really, no.
But bits of Mars have been found on Earth. Trouble is, they're too young. The famous one (ALH 84001) is about 16 million years. Mars was dead, dead, dead by then and they only landed on Earth about 2 million years ago.