Oh and the costs too - You may fall off the edge of the earth.
Oh wait a minute, wrong time period. Let me fast-forward a bit........>>>>>>>>.....
Ok, that's better.
There's no air and the night temps are minus 270 degrees. And those lengthy space flights in zero g's, do you know what that'll do to your bones? Snap, like Dean being told to be civil.
So we'd better not send men to mars, it's just to risky. At least that is the gist of David Derbyshire's opinion piece for The London Daily Telegraph, reprinted on The Washington Post, "Proposal to send men to Mars fraught with risk."
Of course I could be snide and say something like, "He just feels miffed that the Beagle is lost in a crater." But that wouldn't be fair to the men and women that took the risk to shoot a robot to Mars in the hope of discovery. For them it doesn't appear that the risk paid off, but I doubt that will dampen their yearning for new horizons. And I would imagine, that if given the chance, they'd be willing to risk it all for a chance to set foot on another planet.
Itching at the back of my brain is the notion that when there is risk it - whatever it is - shouldn't be done. I wonder if there isn't too much of that thinking in our present age when it comes to most things.
