Thread: When will humanity expand into space?

Originally Posted by Hercuflea

A comment on the "Mars One" project and the like: utterly useless. Both the "Mars One" and the other one (I forget the name) are embarrassing. It is the most preposterous thing, to think that the greatest engineering feat in the history of humanity is going to be done in the name of a reality TV show "Space Bachelorette 2025." I highly doubt this project will ever get off the ground (no pun intended), but even if it does, what happens when the ratings go down, the organization loses funding, the "astronauts" on mars stop receiving supplies, and they starve and die? What an engineering wonder. The other "mission" which sends a man and a woman to orbit Mars one time and then fly home without ever even landing is equally pointless.

Your points, in this paragraph, are that the project is "utterly useless", "embarrassing", and "the most proposterous thing", and that another mission is "equally pointless."

I'm sorry to call you out, but I'm forced to call this paragraph "equally pointless", as it holds no actual points at all. It's really just a lot of name calling, is it not?

Originally Posted by sloth

Your points, in this paragraph, are that the project is "utterly useless", "embarrassing", and "the most proposterous thing", and that another mission is "equally pointless."

I'm sorry to call you out, but I'm forced to call this paragraph "equally pointless", as it holds no actual points at all. It's really just a lot of name calling, is it not?

Although if I was a betting man I wouldn't bet on Mars One succeeding to put people on Mars, it's not totally implausible. With SpaceX technology it could be done with a budget of only a few billion dollars, and that's no more than is spent on the average big Hollywood movie franchise over the course of a few years.