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Re:Barack Obama: America Will Take the Giant Leap to Mars by fail2fail2ban on Tuesday October 11, 2016 @12:31PM (#12685929)
> I hate this analogy. Not only does it enforce the bullshit teleology of the White European as "discoverer" (you know people inhabited these continents, right?)

Thanks, agreed. On the last part though, it doesn't hurt to explore, a lot can be learned in the process alone, outside of actually finding anything.

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Re:Barack Obama: America Will Take the Giant Leap to Mars by yolesaber on Tuesday October 11, 2016 @12:42PM (#12686032)
I agree it doesn't hurt to explore, but we have vast technological means to do so now remotely from our lovely planet Earth. We have a rover that climbs over terrain, never has to sleep or eat, and can do mass spectrometry. The need to insert humans on Mars is arrogance.
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Re:Barack Obama: America Will Take the Giant Leap to Mars by fail2fail2ban on Tuesday October 11, 2016 @01:04PM (#12686249)
I don't see us living there for extended missions either. I do see the importance of what we learned and the inventions that came out of the Moon missions that have positively impacted our lives on this rock. The journey thing. What I don't get, at all, to this day, is why...we still don't have a Moon base.
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