Comments on: Russia and China Plan Mars Mission While American Has Its Head In Its Ass http://www.peter-hodges.com/2006/08/28/russia-and-china-plan-mars-mission-while-american-has-its-head-in-its-ass/ Exploring the Craft of Science Fiction and Fantasy Writing Sat, 04 Feb 2012 15:41:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Rachael Heinlein http://www.peter-hodges.com/2006/08/28/russia-and-china-plan-mars-mission-while-american-has-its-head-in-its-ass/#comment-33 Rachael Heinlein Tue, 29 Aug 2006 15:27:09 +0000 http://www.peter-hodges.com/2006/08/28/russia-and-china-plan-mars-mission-while-american-has-its-head-in-its-ass/#comment-33 Your links are highly amusing! Unfortunately, I think the way America is going to be exploring anything extraterrestrial is through private/corporate funding. With companies such as Virgin and people like Jeff Bezos, you will see the NASA budget shrink even further. This seems to be the general direction in anything the US is doing anyway. All hail the mighty corporate investor! Perhaps Joss Wheadon had it right when the cast of his Firefly spoke alot of Chinese in space. I do think you are right though, there will be no progress if our priorities are focused in antiquated social programs. The Human Race will struggle if there is not a more substantial push to experiment and colonize other surfaces in the galaxy. Please look at the question Stephen Hawking posted on yahoo. He gets some very interesting (as asanine) answers. "How can the human race survive another 100 years?" http://answers.yahoo.com/question/?qid=20060704195516AAnrdOD Your links are highly amusing!

Unfortunately, I think the way America is going to be exploring anything extraterrestrial is through private/corporate funding. With companies such as Virgin and people like Jeff Bezos, you will see the NASA budget shrink even further. This seems to be the general direction in anything the US is doing anyway. All hail the mighty corporate investor!

Perhaps Joss Wheadon had it right when the cast of his Firefly spoke alot of Chinese in space.

I do think you are right though, there will be no progress if our priorities are focused in antiquated social programs. The Human Race will struggle if there is not a more substantial push to experiment and colonize other surfaces in the galaxy.

Please look at the question Stephen Hawking posted on yahoo. He gets some very interesting (as asanine) answers.

“How can the human race survive another 100 years?”
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/?qid=20060704195516AAnrdOD

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