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<blockquote data-quote="wkmac" data-source="post: 1012501" data-attributes="member: 2189"><p>DS,</p><p></p><p>Those are good questions and I have mixed emotions on it. I can understand the "waste of money" POV because you can't see a true outcome or quantify what you are going to get. At the same time from a scientific POV, the study of Mars may answer valuable questions. There's the transpermia hypothesis and what if we learned that life existed on Mars before earth? What would that mean or would it mean anything at all? If life was there, what happened? Can we learn something that we should avoid here? Many questions, few answers.</p><p></p><p>I do think if we are going to venture beyond, it should be a global and open source effort but that would make it a purely scientific and learning project and we still have too much of the "for flag and glory" in us so not sure if that part can or will change. Again good questions but no definitive answers. Hard to argue with Rod's point especially on the cost when so much can be done here.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="wkmac, post: 1012501, member: 2189"] DS, Those are good questions and I have mixed emotions on it. I can understand the "waste of money" POV because you can't see a true outcome or quantify what you are going to get. At the same time from a scientific POV, the study of Mars may answer valuable questions. There's the transpermia hypothesis and what if we learned that life existed on Mars before earth? What would that mean or would it mean anything at all? If life was there, what happened? Can we learn something that we should avoid here? Many questions, few answers. I do think if we are going to venture beyond, it should be a global and open source effort but that would make it a purely scientific and learning project and we still have too much of the "for flag and glory" in us so not sure if that part can or will change. Again good questions but no definitive answers. Hard to argue with Rod's point especially on the cost when so much can be done here. [/QUOTE]
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