Is there a point in the Mars explorations?

Question

I'm not necessarily against exploring the unknown, or exploring even the known, but it just surprises me.

With everything happening in the US. With all the financial problems. Is now the time to spend Billions of dollars searching for water on Mars?

I'm not trashing NASA. I firmly believe in progression. But isn't there a better time? Will Mars really change that much in, say, twenty years?

What do you think?

Answer 1

i have to agree some what only because scientists have said we don't know everything about earth yet. We lack the equitment they say. So I agree woundering why open a whole other subject of questions when we have questions at home to be answered. And i am inclined to say that these ones matter alittle more too. Unless the solution to global warming, poverty, or all out illness is on Mars what the h**l is the point? An extremely rich man's hobbie sort of speak.

Answer 2

I agree, in some ways.  Quite often when NASA is working on exploring, they come up with new tools and ideas that might help the US with some of it's problems.  I would like to see NASA's main project to be working on gas and cars to help the gas price problems.  Also, NASA works on more than one thing at the time, but Mars is more interesting to some people than gas, so the only thing on the news is Mars.

Answer 3

have you actually looked at the numbers? because I think you'll find that the NASA budget is a drop in the ocean compared to the total US federal budget. for example how many fighter jets can you buy for the price of one mars mission? about 10, I guess? sounds like an acceptable tradeoff to me.

do you really think that all they are doing is searching for water? no one lives there now...