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If we can make the commen person think that they actually have a chance to be able to go and live on Mars, And make a new exciting life where they are investing in the future for themselves and there children then they are on our side.
I think that this can be done. There is an exhibit at the Franlin Institute in Philadelphia. (I live in Philadelphia) that is called space command and it educates people about space exploration and it involves the public. I think that these kind of programs could probably help.
I know that they probably thought that the chance of an iceberg hitting the Titanic was very smaill but it happened.
Satatistics? That's what the people who built the Titanic thought about wandering icebergs. Wandering asteroids are like wandering icebergs.
What if there was an acciident on a ship carrying people between the Earth and Mars? What if a huge asteroid got in the way just like the Iceberg and the Titanic. In the Future, should there be an early warning system for Spaceships and a map of all of the asteroids in the asteroid belt on the ship so that it doesn't crash into a huge asteroid?
For exploration missions we would use taxpayer money, from everyone, to send a crew selected on merit. It's exclusive, but not in a class sense.
For colonization the same applies, just with more openings.
I feel relieved. I thought based on the public's view of Space Exploration liike Space Tourism "Which is only for the rich" that only the wealthy would go into space. But I guess I was wrong about only the wealthy going into space in the Marssociety.
I'm against giving stuff only to the few and not to the many.
Then better technology needs to be developed so that everyone can go to Mars and I agree. How can we go to Mars ever if the public views it as being only for the wealthy?
Maybe human missions should wait until everybody can go to Mars. If this happens, then not "JUST" the "RICH" and "UPPER CLASS" can go.
Many of the average joe do want to go but will never see it for it is just for the rich and elite at this point in time.
Maybe space probes will be better because they are not only for the rich. Pictures from space probes are shown to everybody and the scientific knowledge that they obtain is distrubited not according to "CLASS SYSTEMS" and "STRATIFICATION".
Maybe people who work for the rich can save up enough money in the bank so that they can go to space and become rich by saving up money.
Many of the average joe do want to go but will never see it for it is just for the rich and elite at this point in time.
If this view is going to keep going then we will never go to Mars. I hope that the rich will stop stealing the resources from the poor on this planet. People need to change the popular cultural belief that it is "JUST" "FOR THE RICH" I hate it when I see things as being "JUST FOR THE RICH!".
I also think that people should popularize Human Mars Exploration buy inviting television news media companies to the Mars Desert Research Station or similiar places where people learn how to live on Mars by living in the same type of environment on Earth.
That requires a capacity to actually send colonists. Getting this and it becomes a lot easier to sell space.
I think that an organization has to be developed in order to do that by educating people about Human Mars Exploration and having them plan for and get excited about Human Mars Exploration. I heard once that people were selling "Moon Real Estate" somewhere. Maybe the same thing can be done with Mars. In the 17'th century people had to claim land in the "New World" and then sell different amounts of acres of land to people who wanted to buy it and then eventually they setteled there.
But I would use a page out of Zubrins book and use the allure of a new frontier and this should encourage emigration. Especially to those people who are adventurous in the first place
I think that Robert Zubrin's books can be very influential when they talk about Humans Exploring Mars and it makes the people who think otherwise look bad. I think that two goals have to be realized like solving problems here on Earth and getting to Mars also.
In fact, when I went to the National Constitution Center, I saw a pie chart of where our taxes went and ever since the 1960s, they went more towards war than to other programs that would have helped people at home. If the taxes went to Nasa, then I assume that they would have continued human space exploration beyond Low Earth Orbit but unfortunatly the taxes went towards the Department of Defense instead of giving more funding to Nasa. That's probably why that Nasa official said that in the 1980s.
The prevailing attitude seems to have been pretty well summed up in Apollo 13 when Tom Hanks' character is talking to a generic government official whose constituents want to know "why we keep funding this program now that we've beaten the Russians to the Moon" and who seems to have a very...umm..."endorectal" perspective of manned space exploration.
I saw that scene in the movie as well and I didn't like the fact that that person was turning away from going back to the moon. I think that this has something to do with the Cold War getting mixed up with what Nasa was doing. More funds were devoted to the Cold War than to Nasa I assume.
Are people getting bored with Nasa's space shuttles just orbiting the Earth and sending up Satellites and building the International Space Station? Is that all Nasa's Ever going to do or will it actually go beyond "Low Earth Orbit" and go to places like the Moon and Mars?
I read in Robert Zubrin's book "Mars On Earth" that some politician was against Human Space Exploration in the early 1980s and Robert Zubrin attended a meeting in New York and some Senior Nasa official only thought that Nasa's purpose should only launch Communicationm weather and military reconnaissance satellites and then he asked about human space exploration and that Nasa official said that those were the dreams of youth. What should be done about that kind of attitude towards space exploration? If Nasa just launches satellites to put in orbit around the Earth, we won't go anywhere.
So if there is oil on the moon or on the other moon in our solar system, then if and when oil runs out on our planet, we could find more on the other moons in the solar system and on our own moon if it could come from an inorganic source.
There is a theory that crude oil - unlike coal and other fossil fuels - could have an inorganic source.
If that is true, could there be oil on the moon and other moons in our solar system that are being explored right now or could there also be oil on the moons around the Gas Gaints?
If there was any fish in the salt water that once existed in the Martian oceans that the Spirit and Opportunity rovers found, then there could be oil under the surface of ancient dried up oceans just like there is oil under the surface of the oceans on Earth. This is just a theory. Does anyone think that this is possible? If rocks like the ALH84001 that was found on Earth but was from Mars exist on the Martian surface, then there could be more in the dried up bottom of ancient Martian oceans and if there was once life in the dried up ancient oceans on Mars, then the dead fish might have turned into oil like it did on Earth over millions of years. Future space probes could confirm or deny my theory about oil and the Mars Sample return mission could search for the products of this chemical reaction that turned the dead fish into oil on this planet and maybe it happened the same way on mars. There should be something on that probe that could detect the product of that chemical reaction.
I don't know if "Trickle Down" Economics would work.
You think that having lotteries to get money to go to mars would work? What are the chances that someone who plays the lottery every week will win ever?
I think that if people keep letting "Just" the "CEOs" into space, then more and more people will just view space as being "Only" for "The Rich" and support for Human Mars Exploration would stop. What can be done about this?
Are you talking about what happens at the plank scale? They will probably deal with the problems when they get to below 35 nanometers. There will probably be a lot of problems with the chaos that happens at that size.