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Warpy

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3. Easy for him to say, he's not going to have to do it

Mon May 15, 2017, 12:43 AM

May 2017

There has to be one hell of a lot of unmanned exploration before we're anywhere near ready to go there. We also have a hell of a lot of technical problems to solve before we can get someone there and back. Likely the vehicle to get there and back would be best assembled in orbit, at the ISS or something like it, so dumping it is highly premature.

Buzz really hasn't thought this through. Mars is one hell of a lot farther away than the Moon is.

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Not much if the Em Drive actually works when it's tested in low orbit later this year Warpy May 2017 #4

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IF! longship May 2017 #6

It might be Warpy May 2017 #7

What if, Ghost Dog May 2017 #9

Huh? longship May 2017 #11

Newton works perfectly well to get space probes to Pluto, and beyond. longship May 2017 #10

Here. About wacko warp drives and EM drives. longship May 2017 #12

45 years ago the last man left the moon. Jack-o-Lantern May 2017 #2

It should have been Moon Base Alpha in 1999. longship May 2017 #13

Easy for him to say, he's not going to have to do it Warpy May 2017 #3

Exactly. In fact they better justify why a manned Mars mission is significantly more useful at still_one May 2017 #14

Sorry Buzz, you're wrong... LunaSea May 2017 #8