Why Not Mars (Idle Words)

For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.

Why Not Mars (Idle Words) --> « My Taipei Quarantine 1.1. 2023 Why Not Mars For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled. — Richard Feynman Entrance to underground cavern on Pavonis Mons. HiRISE, 2011 The goal of this essay is to persuade you that we shouldn’t send human beings to Mars, at least not anytime soon. Landing on Mars with existing technology would be a destructive, wasteful stunt whose only legacy would be to ruin the greatest natural history experiment in the Solar System. It would no more open a new era of spacefligh

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