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To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (159865)	1/16/2004 3:32:27 PM
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Manned exploration is enormously expensive. Unmanned exploration is far more cost-effective -- but seeing a robot on mars does not have the appeal of seeing a person step on to mars. Would you like to see the US shell out $300 to $500 billion for a photo-op? You know, there are one or two things in our domestic finances that are not in good shape -- health care, pensions (public and private), the cost of adding to the national debt and transferring the burden to future generations, etc. etc. There is not a compelling scientific case to have a manned flight to mars, to put it mildly -- and there are many other things on earth that need doing. This is pure political grandstanding, and a long-term boost for a handful of prime contractors who would be on the receiving end of this government gravy train. hey, who would not like to have several hundred billion dollars in fat government contracts? If you are in favor of big, wasteful and pointless government that has no ability to restrain itself from using enormous sums of borrowed money for political grandstanding, then you have exactly the government you want right now.

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