The fact that it's 2021, we can build fully autonomous vehicles, and we're not sending them to every interesting spot in the solar system is one of the many frustrations that together fill up my day.https://news.arizona.edu/story/methane-plumes-saturns-moon-enceladus-possible-signs-life …
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Every time we send a probe to the outer solar system it revolutionizes our understanding of planetary science, sparks intense public interest, and creates new fields of study. But we insist on spending a hundred times the money to send humans into low earth orbit instead.
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The fact that the public sees a manned mission to Mars as the distant next step in space exploration represents a failure to communicate all the discoveries we've made everywhere in the Solar System someone managed to send a camera. So many desktop backgrounds still to be found!
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It's also important to communicate that the only realistic profile for a 2030's Mars landing (a "boots and flags" mission with no long stay) has negligible scientific value except in the narrow and tautological field of learning to keep large primates alive for two years in space
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Everyone has a vision for the first mission to Mars, but no one has a credible plan for a fourth or fifth mission. It's like we're determined to cosplay the entire Apollo program, including the part where the program is axed, 50 years go by, and we lose all the expertise we had
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Unless they find Taliban on Mars, there's no way we're spending a trillion dollars for a sustained American presence there
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Why not both?
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It's the other direction from Mars, and I agree with everything you're saying, but I'd like to point out these upcoming Venus missions & suggest you give Dr. Grinspoon a follow - an excellent author and science educatorhttps://twitter.com/DrFunkySpoon/status/1414971767559442437?s=20 …
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I absolutely will, thank you! I'm all-in on Venus missions too
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I think the trick will be finding a way to make musk look like a genius for doing it. Obviously virgin dude is out his rockets are useless here. Maybe bezos can have some “long term plan” to inhabit a jovian moon because of the stable magnetic field.
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If you really wanted to solve this problem, you’d create a cryptocurrency that could only be mined using scientific data from Jovian moons
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