A human being wearing a pair of plastic wings can fly on Titan. The fact that Mars remains the idée fixe of our aging plutocrats speaks not to their vision, but to the paucity of their imagination.
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There's already a bunch of places we know might sustain life, and on top of that are whatever undiscovered unknown unknowns we have yet to find. All we know about Neptune and Uranus is what we learned from sending a single digital camera built in 1977. Put rockets on an iPhone!
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This profound incuriosity about our surroundings is what drives me nuts about our timid space program. The same people who dream of autonomous vehicles on earth insist on doing 1960's nostalgia tours in space. What is even the point of having a Solar System?
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Agreed, we really need to be checking out Europa, Ganymede and Titan Even Venus might have microbes in its atmosphere
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Yeah but only Mars can have Martians, duh!
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