re: #268 Stanley Sea

Thanks for all the responses. I am prepared to debate tomorrow. Today I was just aghast that to him it wasn’t a fucking cool as shit thing. (way younger than I - fucking privileged kids!)

The real answer is because we don’t always know where science will lead us. Curie sure didn’t envision cheap clean nuclear power when she was fooling around with radon (or nuclear weapons that keep Iran at bay or whatever this moron wants to believe today). The Wrights never foresaw delivering a living human organ hundreds of miles in an hour or two to save a life. Mendel never expected to map the human genome and predict disease. The vast bulk of our planetary understanding is on a sample size of one. Who knows what another planet can teach us?

That and that filthy librul Kennedy’s answer: because it’s Mars, and because it’s there.