No. Or it least not yet. Maybe when we get more information, and are more secure about our knowledge of it... I don't think that we should risk men's lives yet, not until it's more safe.
its our human nature...explore and learn about new things new planets. good idea or bad idea its going to end up happening and who knows what will happen lol. Im hoping we find aliens
No really.... we all take this for granted but think about it, no one has been there ever since the US 'claims' to have landed there.
Doesn't that sound a bit strange ? Why the sudden lack of interest ?
After all, the moon is VERY close to earth, and it could be a much more well suited space for a base than Earth's orbit (the International space station), since it would have all the same qualities and more.
It could very well be used as a launch pad for ships travelling farther out, like towards mars.
There IS another explanation (the first one beeing there allready is a base there), but that would make me sound like some X-File freak
Travelling to the moon takes 3 weeks, travelling to the international space station takes 3 days (I think) that is a lot of difference, when something goes wrong and all. I think a lunar base would be come costly, prolly even more than the space station
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Perhaps, but it would definitley be easier to build a base on the moon, rather than assembling everything in space, add to this that you could even end up assembling stuff on the moon, and it starts to look more like a factory in space, something that the space station really can't do.
Humans on Mars? Well i voted no. Cuz i dont we should enhance technology anymore. The more we upgrade technology the more lazy we become and unhealthy. And going to Mars will just mean either we find life (which i doubt it) or just waste lot of money and find nothing.
but on one of the moons on saturn scientists found water. Water=Life.
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There's water on Mars, too. (shrugs)
Odyssey found traces of it from orbit last summer (or 2002).
Water in itself doesn't necessarily mean there is life. You need a descent temperature, too. What makes Europa (a moon of Jupiter) interesting is that it may harbour hydrothermic vents.
Anyways: I'm ALL for a manned mission to Mars. Even if it WAS announced on the same day as the first Enron convictions fell...
New technologies are cool. If it wasn't for the Apollo Space Program computer development would be 10 years behind!
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The new technologies that will be developed because of sending people to Mars would be good, but I'm still undecided about whether or not we should send people to Mars.
Rusky> You DO sound like a conspiracy theorist. Any proof there already is a base on the Moon?
Trinity_Matrix> What makes you think it's a good idea? And what makes you think it's a bad idea?
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I think this is a 100% good idea, it's going to happen no matter what. and if WE (america) dont do it, China or Russia ir Japan will... not that thats a bad thing, but why break the tridition? and this will only help us learn more, help us maybe prevent sicknesses and distruction, and teach us more about traveling even deeper in space, maybe even find planets that we can one day in the far far far future live.
Omega -- I actually said in my first post in here why I thought it could be good and why it could be bad. I think it could be good because of all the new technology that will be created. I think it could be bad because for one thing, it'll cost a LOT, and because we've already messed up this planet, and once we're able to go to others, what'll stop humans from messing up those other planets? BUT -- I'm not saying that this will happen, just that it COULD happen.
There is indeed water on Mars. It has two polar ice caps, much like the North and South Poles n Earth. So it implies that Mars was once fertile and could sustain life. Or, it implies that it is possible fror life to exist, even if there isn't any at present.
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and this will only help us learn more, help us maybe prevent sicknesses and distruction, and teach us more about traveling even deeper in space, maybe even find planets that we can one day in the far far far future live.
