Oh, you have hurt my feelings, boo hoo, sorry to shit in your Cheerios(really I love shitting in a liberals cereal). I just proved to you that there are plenty of obstacles in the way, but as typical of a liberal, you just don't like Truth. Liberals love to waste money, especially other peoples money.
The fact you think this is a waste of time and money tells me you are a waste of time.
And I knew the other day when Republicans were pretending that they were in favor of space exploration and they said it was actually us liberals who are anti space exploration, I knew that was nothing but horse shit. You guys are ok with wasting money as long as the waste is going to a private contractor and not NASA. You never complain how much waste exists when the US Government is spending more than the next 8 countries combined on defense.
Imagine where we would be if we spent the money we spent on nuclear bombs and weapons and instead spent that money on going to mars.
Oh, I forgot, you don't see the value in going to mars, even though it might be full of natural resources for us to use when we run out of coal and oil on earth. Forget about the fact Mars is closer to the asteroid belt where there also may be tons of natural resources for us to exploit.
You are completely happy staying ignorant and not knowing. In fact you probably believe god made the universe so why bother looking, right? What a schmuck.
I never said that going to mars is a waste of time, but as a typical liberal, you are lying about me to try to get me on the defensive(rules for radicals). It still is going to be a long shot, because not only do we have to deal with our orbit, but the orbit of Mars in the calculations, the timing must be spot on, or the mission will fail, because Mars wont be close. Now can you imagine what it would be like to Alpha Centauri? The mission to Mars is a private enterprise where millionaires paid 1 million dollars each to see if they were qualified to make the one way trip. I applaud this, and if they wish to be pioneers, good for them. 6 months of their lives will be in travel. If any small object comes in contact with that ship during the journey, the mission ends. That is their choice.
As a liberal, if America didn't spend on defense your sorry ass would be eating sushi or drinking German beer(or dead). Without defense you would of been glowing like a neon sign, but all you liberals ever do is bitch that your sorry asses have to eat government cheese, or live in your parents basement, or have to steal money from those that work, so you can have healthcare. If there wasn't defense there would never of been a NASA. Liberals are the stupidest people in the solar system.