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Originally Posted by Platapus
It will be a long time before China can send a man to Mars.
For some of us here, we will be dead by the time the US sends men to Mars.
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Not for want of manpower, I think there are thousands of people who would volunteer to go to Mars, of course, out of them only perhaps 25% would be fit enough to be able to actually go...but that's still at least two hundred people.
If only we could put the kind of energy that put a man on the moon into putting a man onto Mars, and then further on.
We have the technology, we have the manpower, we have the need, but we've built such complex walls and rules around advancement and technology based upon finance that it is choking us.
I hope I live to see pictures of mankinds first step on Mars, I really do.