NASA continues to reinvent the wheel. We have landed on at least one of every single object in the solar system, from comets to moons, to asteroids, to planets. What have we gotten for our investment? A lot of gee-whiz pictures. Now they want to send humans to Mars. Why? What will they find there? Nothing they haven’t already. The argument that, well, if the sun goes nova, we’ll need to leave Earth and move to Mars. If the sun goes nova the whole solar system will be consumed. NASA needs to change its goals from interplanetary travel to interstellar. NASA needs to explore ways of getting from our solar system to others, once they find a reasonable expectation that such a journey would be worthwhile. NASA needs to develop long-range propulsion systems and explore space-warping and wormhole possibilities There is no future for us in our solar system. And if our military budget was turned over to NASA, very shortly there would be no NASA, and all spacecraft would be launching with the hammer and sickle as markings instead of the stars and stripes. NASA is a dinosaur, continually moving about in circles, constantly finding new arguments for revisiting the same, old, dead destinations.
NASA continues to reinvent the wheel. We have landed on at least one of every single object in the solar system, from comets to moons, to asteroids, to planets. What have we gotten for our investment? A lot of gee-whiz pictures. Now they want to send humans to Mars. Why? What will they find there? Nothing they haven’t already. The argument that, well, if the sun goes nova, we’ll need to leave Earth and move to Mars. If the sun goes nova the whole solar system will be consumed. NASA needs to change its goals from interplanetary travel to interstellar. NASA needs to explore ways of getting from our solar system to others, once they find a reasonable expectation that such a journey would be worthwhile. NASA needs to develop long-range propulsion systems and explore space-warping and wormhole possibilities There is no future for us in our solar system. And if our military budget was turned over to NASA, very shortly there would be no NASA, and all spacecraft would be launching with the hammer and sickle as markings instead of the stars and stripes. NASA is a dinosaur, continually moving about in circles, constantly finding new arguments for revisiting the same, old, dead destinations.