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Re:NASA admits it doesn’t have the funding to land humans on... by srtjstjsj on Thursday July 13, 2017 @01:15PM (#14763088)
why would martian life survive the destruction of earth from extraplanetary impact, which would affect martian orbit?
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Re:NASA admits it doesn’t have the funding to land humans on... by freeflight on Thursday July 13, 2017 @02:11PM (#14763699)
Mars is only the spearhead for further stellar and maybe even interstellar colonization, after all, we gotta start somewhere don't we? Once we manage to do Mars, by gaining knowledge, developing technologies and maybe even discovering new resources, we can hedge humanities survival further by applying this experience to colonizing other places in space.
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Re:NASA admits it doesn’t have the funding to land humans on... by AshleyGrant on Thursday July 13, 2017 @04:51PM (#14765103)
How would that affect Mars's orbit? The remains of the Earth will keep on orbiting the Sun.
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