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Originally Posted by TheCascadeKid
'Murica.
In all seriousness, though, this still blows my mind. Especially since we now have vastly more computing power on a high school robot than all of NASA back in '69, yet we can't get humans beyond LEO.
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It's not that we can't, we just choose not to. Just as we chose to go to the moon. I understand the romance of sending humans to different places, but what will we actually gain by sending people, rather than robots, to Mars? I know I sound like one of THOSE guys. I used to want to be an astronaut. That's why I got my degree where I did, but now I'm not seeing the practical purpose anymore.