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Mars comes close between 2014 and 2018, should the U.S. go?

Christian 2012/06/13 06:57:59
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In the last 12 years we have spent trillions on war and bailing out the banks. The middle 60s and early 70s gave us Apollo and put men on the moon. Since then we have had many booms in our economy, our economy has grown much larger since then. We have a GDP of nearly $15 trillion, the GDP in 1972 was a little over a trillion, to be exact =($1237.9). If we can send a man to the moon then with almost 15 times less GDP, why do we not send a Man to Mars now with a $15 trillion GDP. With all the trillions we spent on war and bailing out the banks. Would we really miss the $300 billion it would cost to put a man on Mars. Plus think of the jobs it would provide in the tech industry and the money that would be pumped into the economy not to mention the new technologies that would come out of it. My theory is that Olympus Mons the largest volcano ever seen so far in the solar system, blew trillions of dollars worth of diamonds all over Mars and are probably laying in thin dirt all around the volcano. Volcano's are known for blowing Diamonds out from deep in the earths mantle where they are formed. Olympus Mons being a large deep super Volcano likley blew out a few Trillion dollars worth of Diamonds from deep inside the mantle of Mars. I think it will pay off for men to be on Mars and to secure a dominant position for the U.S. in space. The Earth comes close to Mars between 2014 and 2018, we should go then.

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  • Freight85 2012/06/13 15:40:53 (edited)
    Yes, the USA should go to MARS between 2014 and 2018.
    Freight85
    +7
    Yes, but send all: 535 of congress, the Rock-a-f-ckers, Rottenchilds, Ted Turner, ,Bill Gates, the 1%, the globalists, the elite, the Bilderberg group, members of the CFR, Bohemian grove participants, corrupt banksters, the transhumanist sickos, living numbers: 39,41,42,43 & 44. Oh yeah, Sandusky & friends. Please feel free to add to the list.

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  • lisa.simms.507 2013/01/13 08:52:32
    Yes, the USA should go to MARS between 2014 and 2018.
    lisa.simms.507
    +1
    i think that u should definitely go to mars ......but dont take ordinary scientists take the engineer's from area 51/dreamland they r the best of the best thays why they r in area 51!!!!!
  • Monty 2012/11/11 08:25:30
    No, we should not go to Mars now and go as planned in the 2030s.
    Monty
    +1
    we will have the tech to go to mars by 2014??? i can see by 2030
  • Christian Monty 2012/11/14 06:46:10
    Christian
    +1
    We had the tech 20 years ago.
  • Monty Christian 2012/11/14 11:14:44
    Monty
    +1
    Then what are we doing? Let's get there!
  • Christian Monty 2012/11/21 02:00:57
    Christian
    +1
    I wish to God I could, I am no one, I am a grain of sand at the base of a giant mountain.
  • sjalan 2012/11/08 04:37:27
    Yes, the USA should go to MARS between 2014 and 2018.
    sjalan
    +1
    Really the more opportune conjunction is in 2023 when it is even closer. That is when the Mars One project is going to colonize Mars.

    www.Mars-One.com
  • ▼♥☆Greencone☆♥▼ PB90s 2012/11/08 00:40:27
    Yes, the USA should go to MARS between 2014 and 2018.
    ▼♥☆Greencone☆♥▼ PB90s
    +1
    It's been years since we sent people to the Moon. It's about time we land a person on Mars
  • Jackal 2012/11/07 17:32:06
    Yes, the USA should go to MARS between 2014 and 2018.
    Jackal
    +1
    Umm... we should have planned to go a long time ago. Here is the problem with going to Mars...


    Having enough fuel to escape the Martian Gravity. So there plan is to first land on an asteroid in the asteroid belt, then they will go to Mars. That is the United States plan... but the problem is, is that they cut the funding to NASA, so now NASA is being funded by corporations. Not to mention, it shouldn't be a country thing. EVERY COUNTRY IN THE WORLD SHOULD COOPERATE TO GET TO MARS. This is about the advancement of mankind. Not the United States.
  • Christian Jackal 2012/11/08 02:36:00
    Christian
    Very true.
  • BHGOzzy 2012/11/07 16:05:17
    Yes, the USA should go to MARS between 2014 and 2018.
    BHGOzzy
    +1
    yes yes yes yes a THOUSAND TIMES YES!
  • christopher.cich 2012/07/02 04:43:56
    Yes, the USA should go to MARS between 2014 and 2018.
    christopher.cich
    +1
    If we go, 100% of the funding needs to go to AMERICAN businesses to build the rockets and equipment. That will truly stimulate the economy and put our citizens back to work. Not one dollar should go to foreign purchases unless it's absolutely necessary.
  • Christian christo... 2012/07/02 04:48:57
    Christian
    What did they do with the trillion we gave them in the last 5 years?
  • P. Sturm 2012/06/28 07:15:26
    Yes, the USA should go to MARS between 2014 and 2018.
    P. Sturm
    +1
    If, and only if, we have solved the problem of properly shielding our astronauts, so we don't have blind men landing Mars.
  • ajracestables1 2012/06/17 17:47:02
    Yes, the USA should go to MARS between 2014 and 2018.
    ajracestables1
    +1
    If they have the money, then they should go.
  • Christian ajraces... 2012/06/18 04:20:01
    Christian
    +1
    If they have the money to go to war they have the money to go to Mars.
  • ajraces... Christian 2012/06/19 04:13:03
    ajracestables1
    +1
    Why does everything always go back to war or something negative? I think the space program is one of the few things that have been a great success and if there is funding for it then they should continue it. They have and will always fund wars, so that's not even part of the topic here.
  • Christian ajraces... 2012/06/19 06:59:46
    Christian
    Its my topic so its my decision. If I want to say the sun rises in the west and sets in the east then so be it. The sun actually does the opposite but you get my drift.

    All I am saying is we always have money for war why not come up with money for something that will make us money. Mars has stuff that's worth money and I don't want to be in an oxygen tent when they land on Mars and find out.
  • Heavy 2012/06/15 23:53:29
    No, we should not go to Mars now and go as planned in the 2030s.
    Heavy
    +1
    Why the hell do we need to go to mars.
  • Christian Heavy 2012/06/16 00:23:38
    Christian
    +1
    Because we are humans and humans explore. What did Europe get when it explored the Atlantic? It got the United States of America or North and South America and a bunch of other places, that's what it got and that's what became of it. Europeans are natural explorers and we are European Americans so we explore and it is time we explored space. We need to push the government to team up with corporate America and build a spacecraft that can go to the end of the solar system and come back and do it in good time.
  • Heavy Christian 2012/06/17 16:49:28
    Heavy
    +1
    So we can ruin that too? All Europeans did when they discovered this land was spread disease and ruin the lives of the people already there. Sure, there is probably no one on mars so we can't ruin their lives, but what's the point of going to an empty rock?
  • Jackal Heavy 2012/11/07 17:46:43 (edited)
    Jackal
    +1
    One Step for man...
    One Giant Leap, for mankind...

    Remember those words?

    - bring a great quantum leap in advance technology.
    - open new jobs.
    - motivate more people to become scientist and advance mankind even more.
    - Colonization of other possible planets
    - Survival of Mankind, Earth is not going to be habitable pretty soon, Mankind's days are numbered on this planet
    - Another step for deep space travel
    - Allow humans to reach the next evolutionary stage...
  • Christian Heavy 2012/11/11 04:51:37
    Christian
    +1
    Humans explore, its simply part of what we are.
  • Monty Heavy 2012/11/11 08:27:49
    Monty
    +1
    unless they live in the middle of the planet
  • rcardon 2012/06/15 16:37:22
    Yes, the USA should go to MARS between 2014 and 2018.
    rcardon
    +1
    I think we should go, especially if it's closer, that would, in effect, save our country some money. At least, that's what one would think.
  • Alexander Roman 2012/06/15 13:45:26
    Yes, the USA should go to MARS between 2014 and 2018.
    Alexander Roman
  • Mark Twain 2012/06/14 22:53:56
    No, we should not go to Mars now and go as planned in the 2030s.
    Mark Twain
    +2
    Bob,,I wish things were different, It was a beautiful time to live during the late sixtys when this nation had the courage and iniative to step up to John Kennedys challenge. That Generation survived a Great Depression, fought a World War in two oceans and won. They took humanity from the first powered flight of man at Kitty Hawk to the moon in 60 years, one life span. They are not here now. Bob we should have had a permanent base on the Moon 20 years ago. We could have been surface mining the Helium 3 we know is there in abundance to power us. Something has kept us from the Moon. I think our government has been told to go no farther than earth orbit by someone or something.
  • Christian Mark Twain 2012/06/14 22:59:37
    Christian
    +1
    Interesting
  • Jackal Mark Twain 2012/11/07 17:54:49
    Jackal
    +1
    The thing is this,

    Mining and transport would be ungodly expensive. They feel that the cost to building a mining port on the moon would cost more than the product they are mining... If there is a more of a cost sufficient way to do this, I am sure they would have done this a long time ago.
  • Mark Twain Jackal 2012/11/09 16:09:27
    Mark Twain
    +1
    Prof Gerald K Oniell of MIT worked it all out using mass drivers on the lunar surface throwing freight train sized buckets up a rail system that would easily send loads to A funnel shape catcher at A Lagrange point. a factory there would construct huge solar arrays in orbit and convert to microwave energy beamed to Earth. Use materials to build He published the plan in book form in the late seventies,,,economically and technologically feasible in 1978. Check it out but remember we buy much oil from our Saudi,,,,,,,,,,,,,,friends? and they dont like competitive energy sources or Infidels walking on the moon which is use as their holy calendar.
  • Monty Mark Twain 2012/11/11 08:29:11 (edited)
    Monty
    +1
    my mom's religion believed that humans shouldn't go into space at all,idk where they got that. so it may be some of these religious groups preventing that.
  • Chief 2012/06/14 20:07:16
    No, we should not go to Mars now and go as planned in the 2030s.
    Chief
    +1
    We know less about the Abyssal plain then we know about the moon, in fact we have only studied about 1% of the Abyssal plane. We are broke anyway, we just can not afford too.
  • Christian Chief 2012/06/14 20:18:12
    Christian
    We cant afford many things and we do them. How about we stop paying the medical bills of 20 million illegals and spend in on NASA.
  • Christian 2012/06/18 22:37:46
    Most of the illegal's can't get their medical bill's payed because of there citizenship status (I've seen this in the news and in real life) so it won't really make a difference on money. You sound like their responsible for you multi-trillion dollar debt. It's mostly how the Government doesn't take care of it.
  • Jackal Christian 2012/11/07 17:56:06 (edited)
    Jackal
    +1
    How about stop spending it on senseless wars.
  • Christian Jackal 2012/11/11 04:52:20
    Christian
    +1
    Good point.
  • Fenris 2012/06/14 15:27:33
    Yes, the USA should go to MARS between 2014 and 2018.
    Fenris
    +1
    Light a fire(a BIG fire) under them NASA wimps or step aside and let the private interests do it!
  • Jackal Fenris 2012/11/07 17:59:07
    Jackal
    +1
    NASA is stuck because they are extreme budget cuts. They cut the funding of NASA because of the Debt Crisis... Instead, they are being funded by Private corporations. So instead of an American Flag on Mars... .... It is a McDonalds flag on Mars. Or Redbull, because we all know how extreme they are.
  • waterlady 2012/06/14 06:20:12
    No, we should not go to Mars now and go as planned in the 2030s.
    waterlady
    +1
    We need money spent repairing water and sewer lines. Spending money in outer space is crazy when we need things repaired here in America.
  • Christian waterlady 2012/06/14 07:47:02
    Christian
    Of course but a MARS mission would be just what the doctor ordered for the economy and for the moral of the people. We need to make a big stride and do something incredible. I will not live to see men go to Mars and I am a huge astronomy enthusiast. Plus man will find diamonds on Mars for sure.
  • Jackal waterlady 2012/11/07 18:00:50
    Jackal
    +1
    Mars Missions could, in fact, help technological advances which may solve those problems.

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