> The goal of this essay is to persuade you that we shouldn’t send human beings to Mars, at least not anytime soon.
How soon does anyone think we're going to send people to Mars? In the next 10 years? 20 years? Personally - and I wouldn't mind seeing it happen - I'd be shocked if it was in the next 30 years.
Everyone has a different time frame but I don't think of that as soon.
It depends a lot on our ability to handle loss of life in the process of exploration.
We can most definitely get people on Mars by 2030. But we need to accept that some or all of them may die in the process. Are we as a civilisation ready for that?
The technology of actually getting someone BACK from Mars is a whole different thing.
In the worst situation we would have the world's most expensive reality survival show, watching when astronauts slowly die of starvation on Mars because hydroponics failed and they didn't bring enough dry rations.
How soon does anyone think we're going to send people to Mars? In the next 10 years? 20 years? Personally - and I wouldn't mind seeing it happen - I'd be shocked if it was in the next 30 years.
Everyone has a different time frame but I don't think of that as soon.