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Kobayashi
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Re: Why go to Mars?
07/21/08 01:13 AM
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With a rather nebulous exception that the study of Mars may contribute to Earth science.
There's nothing nebulous about scientific goals of unmanned mars probes. They only get funded if they have very specific achievable goals. Just look at the web page of any such mission, they usually discuss the scientific goals.
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Humm... [edited to add: there is the search for life, but we don't need to send people for that]
I agree with that, unmanned missions are more cost-effective for scientific research. That's even true for low-earth orbit missions. (And please don't bring up the Hubble as a counter-example - a manned repair mission is almost as expensive as building a replacement and launching on an unmanned launcher.)
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As far as exploitable resources, I would maintain that we could get resources from the asteroid belt...
What resources? I don't know of any resources in the asteroid belt (or Mars) that you can't find on earth.
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