I wonder if Spanish idiots said the same thing about financing Columbus's expedition.
Don't sweat it, I give you my personal guarantee that not a single penny will be spent on Mars. Every cent will be spent on this planet exclusively.
Where does that 2.46 billion go if it is spent on the mission? where has it gone previously [ie. when it was not being spent on the mission?] where will/would it go instead of the mission?
Kinda makes ya wonder about NASA's sense of humor doesn't it?...what you're saying is either NASA is intentionally engaging in homicidal behavior or they just do not have access to the information you possess.
ION thruster is the most promising, get to Mars in a little over a month. Once perfercted it is believed it can get to 400,000 miles an hour, could get to Mars in under a week.
Are you kidding me? You could say the same thing about the wars in the middle east. Where is your outrage on all the money we wasted there over the past 18 years?
OP also fails to understand that many high tech good paying jobs are created through all the various contractors connected to any project.
Like I said earlier, There is no air , no water, and the Gama, and deep space radiation on Mars will kill off any would be colonizers in a matter of months.!! And once you land on Mars the gravity is such that you can not bring enough fuel to lift you off of Mars to get you back to Earth!! You people have been brainwashed by science fiction movies with this Mars colonization idea. Nothing will grow on Mars, and when the colonizers run out of food they will all starve to death, if the radiation or lack of oxygen doesn't kill them off first.And that is if they make it to Mars!, they were a few probes that skipped off the atmosphere because the telemetry navigation was off a few degrees.
