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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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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