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Originally Posted by York
Do you think that the first person who will walk on Mars in alive now?
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Nope. There won't be the money for it - too much has been flushed down various "rat holes" in recent decades. It also makes little practical sense to send a human being; for the cost of a human mission large numbers of increasingly sophisticated robot probes could be sent and they would likely do a better job than human explorers. The problems of deterioration of the human body in long term, low gravity conditions and the radiation dose that would be received have not yet been completely solved and may never be. Compared to trying to live on Mars, any place on earth (such as Antarctica or the top of Mount Everest) would be a paradise.