Today was a fasting day:
A few days ago I watched the first episode of a new series on netflix. I'm not sure what it is about but it starts with a (failed) attempt to send a manned rocket to Mars. It reminded me that the last time we sent a man to the moon was 46 years ago. Looking back it seems crazy that the United States put so much money ($100 Billion) and effort into a what turned out to be a dead end. There are now a number of projects which have as their goal to reach Mars. I don't know how much is being spent on this new objective but it seems to me as pointless as the planet itself. I was an avid science fiction reader in my youth so I can understand the dream of new worlds, but Mars has no capacity whatsoever to be "terra formed". If we want to escape our planet rather than stop destroying it (never the best option) let's just have a few theoretical physicists think about light speed to planets far far away.... That should take a while and cost relatively little.
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