Robots only get you so far. It's high time ESA seriously started a manned program (even a modest one). The alternative is to exist as a NASA/RSA pensioner, hoping to buy a spare seat, at a time when those seats won't be available for "international" personnel (Moon and Mars missions are likely to be prestige-based single-nation projects).
If history is our guide, as soon as we discover something of sufficient economic value out there we will begin setting out for those new worlds in earnest. We just need that practical motivation.
Big bang? lol
No wonder we are just a blurp of something now.
TheHairyHeart 3 years ago
Robots only get you so far. It's high time ESA seriously started a manned program (even a modest one). The alternative is to exist as a NASA/RSA pensioner, hoping to buy a spare seat, at a time when those seats won't be available for "international" personnel (Moon and Mars missions are likely to be prestige-based single-nation projects).
JohannVF 4 years ago
If history is our guide, as soon as we discover something of sufficient economic value out there we will begin setting out for those new worlds in earnest. We just need that practical motivation.
islandcaptain 4 years ago 3
Science is so much more interesting than religion, isn't it?
AcePilot101 4 years ago 8
Interesting
Ortilochus 4 years ago
:) excelent
dominican1000 4 years ago