[jerod]

Mars... Really? When humankind arrives there I’m pretty sure they’ll find the same thing they found when they went to the moon... Nothing!

Space exploration by robot is the only sensible solution to quenching our thirst for knowledge. Elon Musk and other fools who crave a ‘human’ mission are wasting time, money and resources that could be better spent on other en-devours more worthwhile to humanity.

[plain talk]

“Space exploration by robot is the only sensible solution to quenching our thirst for knowledge. “

That’s where I’ve been for a while now.

[citizen]

I tell ya, that horseless carriage is just a dang fool contraption that’s a waste of time and will never amount to anything.

[Raymann]

Hundreds of millions of rocks floating around our solar system...all we have to do is miss one of sufficient size and boom, we’re done. If not as a species then as a civilization.

Mars is the backup plan. Eventually it’ll be the frontier and finally another epicenter of humanity. Few things are as important.

[GingisK]

Space exploration by robot is the only sensible solution to quenching our thirst for knowledge.

I'm SOOOO glad you weren't around during the Westward expansion of our nation. The Spirit of Exploration nurtures humans.