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Originally Posted by BRPORSCHE View Post
This isn't quite true....
are you saying that a human cannot survive the trip to Mars? True, there will be substantial muscle loss due to being in micro gravity. NASA has learned a great deal of information about what will happen to the human body. Are we ready for it yet? Not at all. Will it happen in my lifetime? Certainly.

Manifest destiny.

That's why we gotta go.
You guys are underestimating the radiation problem, outer space is a very inhospitable environment.

And besides that... why?

Manifest destiny? Because it is there? Because we can?

What is the incentive other than to say BTDT?
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