News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Why Not Mars. Parent comment

Re:Why Not Mars by oblio on Monday January 02, 2023 @08:26AM (#34217582)
> Exactly - hence why humans shouldn't be going to Mars until we have studied the hell out of any possible local life and become convinced we have learned all we can on the subject.

That's not how people work. People will go to Mars for curiosity, greed, fame, or some higher level desire (possibly religious) not necessarily in that order.

Odds of Mars being explored à la Star Trek are infinitesimal, I'd give that hope up.

We can explore how life appeared on planets in other solar systems.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Why Not Mars by tsimionescu on Monday January 02, 2023 @12:24PM (#34220634)
It has worked so far for Antarctica, and saying "it's never going to work" while advocating for it not working is not a convincing argument.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Why Not Mars by m4rtink on Tuesday January 03, 2023 @06:56AM (#34230388)
It has worked due to the treaty being worked out in early cold war, when both East and West were already planning military operations and bases in Antarctica - that way, neither side could have it and they were fine with it, sparing a considerable expense.

It has held in place since then by both inertia & similar "if I can't have the resources, no one can" and other resource sources still being usually cheaper to mine.

[ Parent | on HN ]