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> What exactly is the incentive for the private sector to go to Mars? Sponsorships, reality TV, claiming undiscovered land

• cmyr 12y ago
  Which are all pretty base incentives. We should be going to mars, as a species, for its own sake. The idea that the thing that might justify our first visit to another planet, for some people, might be because it would make good reality TV is just horrifying and saddening and stupefying and should be confronted at every opportunity.
  • bdamm 12y ago
    The news is also a reality TV show.
  • johndevor 12y ago
    Um, the moon landing was reality tv and it was awesome.
  • tripzilch 12y ago
    > We should be going to mars, as a species, for its own sake > The idea that the thing that might justify our first visit to another planet, for some people, might be because it would make good reality TV In this post-modern age of hyperreality, there's not nearly as much difference between the two as you may think. > just horrifying and saddening and stupefying and should be confronted at every opportunity. Yes, well maybe. You can fight it. You can wallow in it. You can also see it as a kind of gravity-assist :)