I'm curious to what you think about probing mars......

Question

I see Nasa has been probing mars to seeing if we can live on the planet, the problem I have is the temperature. If humans can survive

-80...how are we suppose to survive temperatures of -128? Do you think Nasa is wasting money? maybe it should be put towards repairing Earth...

Answer 1

I think it is better than probing Uranus. LOL!

Seriously, what they are probing for, I am sure they dont want us to know. From pictures I have seen of Mars, it definaltely had life on it and the atmosphere isn't how were taught in school. They could be looking for an ancient technology that those residents of Mars possessed. Maybe it could save humanity or destroy us all.

Answer 2

"The Earth is the cradle of Mankind, but one cannot live in the cradle forever"

-Konstantin Tsiolkovsky

"We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too.”

-President John F. Kennedy

Answer 3

personally i think a: the money is better in research to repair the planet

                    or   b: it would be easier to research living under water, all you need is a way to separate hydrogen and oxygen and their ya go breath and watch tv via hydrogen, of course that wouldn't be likely since we would need a salt filtering device or something. but think starwars episode 1 the phantom menace. where jar jar binks shows the 2 jedi the that under water city wouldn't that be cool because in a different planet you have to constantly send supplies and people to mars    

Answer 4

I don't believe the problem about staying on Earth is maintenance, but more of space.  Considering that over the next 50 years the human population on earth will increase by a whole third, it seems easy to say that without some major apartment buildings being produced in the next century, a new frontier for settlement seems like an acceptable investment.  I believe that our current technology in heating and insulating might be able to cope with those temperature extremes, but I'm not sure where I'd be able to find that.

Answer 5

NASA as a government entity is a complete waste of money. The government needs to get out of the space business. When space travel is economically feasible, private companies will quickly fill the void.

Answer 6

I think we should spend money both on repairing the Earth and on preparing other planets to host the human race.

NASA is not really in the space BUSINESS.  (I am occasionally, though.)  NASA does research and exploration, and often acts as the funding and enabling agency for academic research and some business interests.  The type of activity NASA does in space differs greatly from that which would be commercially exploitable, and is proper to their public role.

The notion of public research and development pervades nearly every industry sector.  It's just more visible in the aerospace sector when NASA does it.  Science and commerce don't always have compatible goals, and I think both are necessary.

Answer 7

well, what they are planning to do is to make it suitable for sustaining life. Besides, humans will be living inside the structures that will be built on mars, rarely going outside of those structures.. remember, it is easier to heat a building in a cold atmosphere than to cool it in a hot atmoshpere