Why Should People Explore Mars in Person? Because It's There!



Irregular slabs of petrified mud at Yellowknife Bay, Mars. Photo: NASA
I grew impatient with myself after re-reading my January post on human space exploration because midway I argued myself out of most of my reservations about setting up a human colony on Mars.

One reader argued that people need to explore the solar system in person “Because it’s there!” Another sided with Craig Venter’s idea of converting genetic information into digital information and launching encapsulated see...
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Published on February 18, 2014 20:46
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