Rocket To Mars ?......Why ?

[rightwinger]

What would we gain by having a moon base?
What purpose does it serve other than appeasing Sci Fi fans?

its called technological advancement.....i know its tough for people like you to grasp....

What technology?
We could do the same thing in Antarctica, Sahara Desert or parts of Jersey

dean would be proud of you RW.....speaking of dean,whatever happened to the guy?.....he is listed as a guest....

Haven't seen rdean in quite a while

He self deleted?



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Trump locked him in the dungeons of Trump Tower

 

[JimBowie1958]

There was never a war on drugs.

There was never an EFFECTIVE war on drugs.

 

[danielpalos]

It's important not only for the ancillary benefits it will provide, but because we are explorers. We were not satisfied by merely looking out of the cave. We wanted to see what lays beyond the next hill. It is deep in the human race to explore.

...most of us are hoping you liberals would see it that way; dont miss your trip!

does the right wing prefer the socialism of a drug war on a national basis? the left would like a, "Mission to Mars" instead of a War on Drugs.

There was never a war on drugs.

good; then, we can simply deny and disparage Government, on Your say so.

 

[EvilCat Breath]

There was never a war on drugs.

There was never an EFFECTIVE war on drugs.

True.

 

[Nosmo King]

"War on Drugs" = Prohibition of the 1920s Ineffective and a total waste of time and energy.

 

[EvilCat Breath]

"War on Drugs" = Prohibition of the 1920s Ineffective and a total waste of time and energy.

See China and Singapore for effective war on drugs. The druggies aren't allowed to live to continue using. That's war. Prohibition isn't war.

 

[Nosmo King]

"War on Drugs" = Prohibition of the 1920s Ineffective and a total waste of time and energy.

See China and Singapore for effective war on drugs. The druggies aren't allowed to live to continue using. That's war. Prohibition isn't war.

Expand the death penalty? Is drug abuse, in your opinion, a criminal problem or a public health problem?

 

[theHawk]

Does anybody know why the Trump Administration thinks it to be a good idea to spend Billions$$ of our tax dollars, sending a rocket to Mars ? What could be the gain from an investment like that ? This is an important question since we're talking about a lot of money going out, when we have a $19 Trillion debt, and lots of other things needing money.

What makes this thing even more odd, is that at the same time this was planned, Trump was planning to cut the Coast Guard's budget by $1.3 Billion, which thankfully that bad idea has been scrapped, and the Coast Guard will now receive its full budget.

Feel free to input your top 2 suggestions of how else the Mars mission money could/should be better spent. There probably are hundreds of these.

As long as they are focusing on exploiting the resources, instead of wasting billions for a vain effort to find "life". We will likely need to mine and extract the natural resources on other worlds and moons in our solar system in order to construct bigger ships to travel to other star systems.

 

[Brynmr]

"War on Drugs" = Prohibition of the 1920s Ineffective and a total waste of time and energy.

See China and Singapore for effective war on drugs. The druggies aren't allowed to live to continue using. That's war. Prohibition isn't war.

Expand the death penalty? Is drug abuse, in your opinion, a criminal problem or a public health problem?

It's a health problem until the user commits a crime to feed his addiction. People use drugs because they're suffering so treat the suffering effectively.

 

[rightwinger]

"War on Drugs" = Prohibition of the 1920s Ineffective and a total waste of time and energy.

It did give us an extra two million prisoners to take care of

 

[Brynmr]

Let's go to Mars!!! Woo Hoo!!!

 

[EvilCat Breath]

"War on Drugs" = Prohibition of the 1920s Ineffective and a total waste of time and energy.

See China and Singapore for effective war on drugs. The druggies aren't allowed to live to continue using. That's war. Prohibition isn't war.

Expand the death penalty? Is drug abuse, in your opinion, a criminal problem or a public health problem?

A chronic anti civilization problem.

 

[EvilCat Breath]

"War on Drugs" = Prohibition of the 1920s Ineffective and a total waste of time and energy.

It did give us an extra two million prisoners to take care of

No prisoners. No problem.

 

[danielpalos]

"War on Drugs" = Prohibition of the 1920s Ineffective and a total waste of time and energy.

See China and Singapore for effective war on drugs. The druggies aren't allowed to live to continue using. That's war. Prohibition isn't war.

We have a Bill of Rights. Only the right wing prefers their socialism on a national basis instead of Commerce, well regulated.

Even a death penalty won't stop drug usage or the abomination of hypocrisy, even without drug use.

 

[danielpalos]

"War on Drugs" = Prohibition of the 1920s Ineffective and a total waste of time and energy.

It did give us an extra two million prisoners to take care of

No prisoners. No problem.

Should we, "take out", practitioners of the abomination of hypocrisy, to see if we can really make it, with only Ten simple Commandments?

 

[The Sage of Main Street]

It may be more practicable to set up a Moon Base, first; possibly rail gun technology to "ship cargo and personnel" to Mars. And, a Lunar Observatory in the process, would be nice.

From which we would get WHAT ?

The Twinkling Void

"No practical value" has snob appeal. So the escapist Trekkies would get a warm and fuzzy feeling of being above all those plebeian concerns of normal people. It would make the childish mutants fly high, way up in the clouds of moral superiority.