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No idea who NDT is, but I'm kind of afraid that doing something like a Mars mission too early will turn out having the opposite effect. With the tech available
by dividedbyzero 3y ago
No idea who NDT is, but I'm kind of afraid that doing something like a Mars mission too early will turn out having the opposite effect. With the tech available for a soon-ish to launch Mars mission, chances are pretty high that something would go wrong catastrophically, there's just so much complexity that cannot break down for such a long time under extreme conditions, we're not ready for that. Watching the people we send there die slowly and horrifically isn't going to be a rational "we knew the risks" thing for the general public, people will be horrified and it'll put a big damper on future endeavors of this kind. I'd expect manned spaceflight to be pretty much dead for decades after that.
- robg 3y agoExactly this. The current hype for a human on Mars is repeating the mistakes of Apollo then the Shuttle. By contrast the public has absolutely been engaged in what rovers and telescopes find.
- johnyzee 3y agoDid we fly to the moon too soon? Did we squander the chance? In the rush of the race The reason we chase is lost in romance And still we try To justify the waste for a taste of man's greatest adventure Tasmin Archer - Sleeping Satelite https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2Ck38Cl474 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2Ck38Cl474
- notfish 3y agoI feel like spacex is the only group that has a chance at landing on mars this decade, and Starship is exactly what we’d want if we were trying to make a self sustaining mars colony right?
- vel0city 3y agoNDT = Neal deGrasse Tyson. Astrophysicist, director of the Hayden Planetarium, a pretty big science communicator. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_deGrasse_Tyson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_deGrasse_Tyson