Re:India to launch Mars mission this year: President
by primitur on Friday February 22, 2013 @02:42AM
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I'm on the fence about any nation going to Mars for the sake of pride.
I don't think the first man on Mars will want to go down in history as an American, personally. At least, if that is how it is pitched and sold - s/American/Indian/g - then I have to say that I am terrified of the sudden lurch of the species towards a planet of immense resources, bereft of any intervention of industry besides .. simply .. the technology to get there and do stuff.
It may be a sense of great national pride, but for no great pride ought this matter of human control over another planet be achieved!
Send Robots to Mars, not Men! Turn over the keys to the enter species, not one single brand/variant of it!
I don't think the first man on Mars will want to go down in history as an American, personally. At least, if that is how it is pitched and sold - s/American/Indian/g - then I have to say that I am terrified of the sudden lurch of the species towards a planet of immense resources, bereft of any intervention of industry besides .. simply .. the technology to get there and do stuff.
It may be a sense of great national pride, but for no great pride ought this matter of human control over another planet be achieved!
Send Robots to Mars, not Men! Turn over the keys to the enter species, not one single brand/variant of it!