re: #81 No Malarkey!

And I am all for space exploration. Loved it since I was a kid. But we can explore Mars safely with robots at a fraction of the cost of a single manned mission. It probably doesn’t make sense to send people there until our technology is much more advanced.

By that theory we shouldn’t have sent men to the moon in a tiny capsule with less computing power than a modern calculator. But we did, because we could. And because we needed to. I believe that exploration, along with story telling, are needed to make us human.