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If I was alive in 1909 and someone made the claim that man would be walking on the moon in 60 years, I'd have called bullshit too.

• jacquesm 6y ago
  But that's not the claim. The claim is that 60 years counting from the moonlanding we will have a settlement on Mars. I don't believe it for a moment. And even 60 years from today is a thing that I would not believe. We have a hard enough time keeping places much more hospitable to life on planet earth supplied. Maybe, just maybe, we will have made a manned round trip to Mars. And that would be quite an accomplishment. A much more likely chance is a one way trip with all hands lost, assuming they make it to the destination at all.
  • jacobolus 6y ago
    > claim is that 60 years counting from the moonlanding To be fair, “hence” means counting from now, not counting from the moon landing.
    • jacquesm 6y ago
      Ok, fine by me. Still bullshit.
• yongjik 6y ago
  On the other hand, it's been 51 years since Apollo 11, and not only we don't have any Moonbases (either now or in near future), we haven't even gone back there.