The Marines say the F-35 is now ready for combat

Re:The Marines say the F-35 is now ready for combat by yellowapple on Friday July 31, 2015 @06:31PM (#9984901)

If the money spent on this failure of a flying machine went to NASA's budget instead, we'd probably have a Mars colony by now.

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Re:The Marines say the F-35 is now ready for combat by robbrown451 on Saturday August 01, 2015 @01:12AM (#9986043)

Other than being kind of cool, what would be the advantage of a Mars colony again?

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Re:The Marines say the F-35 is now ready for combat by fit2rule on Saturday August 01, 2015 @02:35AM (#9986172)

We could get away from all the crazy wars that people are starting here on Earth.

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Re:The Marines say the F-35 is now ready for combat by foiboitoi on Saturday August 01, 2015 @05:31AM (#9986474)

Colonizing Mars would advance our technology far enough to give us confidence to research forward into colonizing beyond our solar system. Which is arguably the next major important developmental steps as a species.

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Re:The Marines say the F-35 is now ready for combat by yellowapple on Monday August 03, 2015 @01:06PM (#9997780)

Let's see:

* Another planet to live on if we mess up Earth sufficiently bad (though, if we can live on Mars, we can probably live on a pretty-fucked-up Earth)

* Close proximity to the asteroid belt (which is already being examined for mining activity)

* Arguably the least hostile to colonization among the planets

* Has water ice, might have liquid water

* Respect from Buzz Aldrin

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