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Re:NASA: We're sending humans to Mars by angersock on Tuesday December 02, 2014 @03:10PM (#8689515)
You know, I'm quite sure those same arguments were made to the early explorers of the New World, back to the nutty Vikings and others.
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Re:NASA: We're sending humans to Mars by thisGuysAccount on Tuesday December 02, 2014 @04:08PM (#8689913)
Even as recently as mass immigration to America. People who got on the boats across the Atlantic weren't coming back, and communication was slow.

Some people just want to go.

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Re:NASA: We're sending humans to Mars by wvenable on Tuesday December 02, 2014 @06:14PM (#8690744)
I'm pretty sure the New World was actually habitable.
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