I cant be anything but excited about Curiosity landing on Mars, but I was wondering if Mars missions are giving us any value for our money. I think there are over 3 dozen missions that we sent to mars and at least 2 dozen of them failed. Those that did not fail, gave us puny info if any. We are still not sure about the present water existence, we definitely dont have any clue of past or present life form, we are not sure if its habitable in any form or not.
we spent billions and billions of dollars on that, to learn what? Nothing more than what we already knew when Carl Sagan was alive and we probably sent out dozen of missions since then.
It took 9 months for the expedition to travel to Mars from Earth ... I find it all quite fascinating.
I heard the debate over the $ spent on this expedition earlier today on the radio. On the one hand, it is money totally wasted that can used on 'cutback' areas. Then again, who knows what Mars has to offer!
Why do they keep going to Mars? Why not any other planet? Why not Venus or Jupiter?
its not about money when it comes to glaciers. policy is made by those in the pockets of conventional energy companies. in most countries in the world. glaciers are almost certainly a lost cause at this point.
Monk bohat samjdhar ho gaye ho aap. I tend to agree with Monk and Mehnaz - let's learn about earth and invest in sustaining it before we go elsewhere?
. Aray jis ne thread att kee oos ko lift nahi and agreeing with m & m
For space exploration, bigger bang for the buck is to chase asteroids for precious metal and gems mining, not sending useless missions to mars
If you think that will result in cheaper diamonds and hence less money you have to spend on it then forget about it. If that happens women will find another precious stone to buy. :D
all they really need is water. everything else is "easy". the crux of it all is, transport from earth to mars is expensive. (so is from asteroid to earth btw). so if you can have stuff grown in mars using a bunch of robot farmers, it opens up a lot of opportunities.
and rust is essentially iron ore. :P steel.. infrastructure.. muahahha
(Just so you know I’m kidding :p)