Target Venus not Mars for first crewed mission to another planet, experts say

Post by marmadukester39 » Mon, Sep 26, 2022, 6:29 PM UTC

Workaccount2 wrote: post #60

remarkEon wrote: post #56

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It’s part of the sea change that happened starting with social media but significantly accelerated in the 2010s. It hit foreign policy first, I think, but by now it’s a feature of reporting for basically everything. > Rhodes singled out a key example to me one day, laced with the brutal contempt that is a hallmark of his private utterances. “All these newspapers used to have foreign bureaus,” he said. “Now they don’t…

> The average reporter we talk to is 27 years old, and their only reporting experience consists of being around political campaigns. And on twitter. It's pure cancer to journalism and "journalists" can't seem to help but do all their reporting from the comfort of their home browsing twitter for the "news" and takes all day. Honestly I think honest journalists should take an "Oath of No Twitter" to keep their jobs.

Post by LargoLasskhyfv » Mon, Sep 26, 2022, 10:09 PM UTC

ncmncm wrote: post #37

causality0 wrote: post #26

“You’d be learning about how people work in deep space, without committing yourself to a full Mars mission,” he said. All of these "Not Mars" people always seem to fall into the same boat where they know there's zero point to sticking human beings and life support systems into an observation probe so they trot out this "it's good practice, guys!" horseshit. Scientific progress is not the point of putting the first se…

Going to Mars will be among humanity's least revered achievements. There is nothing there. The only plausibly valuable exports from Mars might be the engines that got your supplies there. With their bells cut off.