Comments by "Itinerant Patriot" (@itinerantpatriot1196) on "What The Journey To Mars Will Be Like!" video.

  1. Dude, I dig your enthusiasm. And I certainly enjoy videos like this over the one I just watched about habitable zones around stars that are just a tad warmer than my broiler. But before you go beaming anyone up, who's going to bankroll all this? I've said it before, the line from The Right Stuff is applicable to any generation: "No bucks, no Buck Rogers." Space exploration is all based on political will. We went to the Moon because the will was there and the people rallied behind the cause in overwhelming numbers. All this stuff about building permanent settlements on the Moon and nuclear powered rockets, man, I love it. But do you realize how many trillion's, with a T, it's going to cost to pull off a play like that? Don't get me wrong, I love the idea. I grew up on this stuff and when I was a kid, I figured we would be on our way to Jupiter by this time, that the Mars landing would already be well in the rearview mirror. But we stopped after the Moon. And we stopped for a very simple reason, the will just wasn't there. Momentum is something you have to feed, we stopped feeding it. The eggheads beat the explorers at NASA and we got telescopes and probes instead of starships and intrepid space travelers. I love the idea of going to Mars, but honestly, if you asked me to quantify the ROI on a project like that I wouldn't be able to. In my opinion, the only way to pull off an undertaking like you are describing would be to make it a worldwide thing. Get everyone involved. Share the cost and the brainpower. It might do us some good. Maybe we'd figure out that at a basic level we aren't the enemies the powers that be want us to believe we are, and I'm not just talking about differences between nations. But that's a conversation for another day. For now, keep dreaming big dreams big guy, and know that I'm in your corner, even of I put the odds at 100,000,000 to 1. But as Jim Carey put it: "So you're telling me I've got a chance."
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