[mhurron]

If it wasn't for the national dick waving contest that we call space exploration, it wouldn't matter that NASA isn't from the nation running a vehicle project. But out of everything that NASA does what gets attention? The fact that it's not the nation sending rockets up. Why? Because it's not about exploration and expanding knowledge, it's about dick waving.

I laugh at all this talk about going to Mars to save the human race. We're just going to show up, if we get there at all, and fuck it up just as hard as we have on Earth. We're a species of idiotic assholes.

[BFatts]

Well I guess we won't be sending you then.

[fsloth]

I think you are being too harsh. If all the humans had all the information available all the time and not dependent on their community then it would be just a matter of character.

Humans are humans - and at least currently it appears we learn and improve all the time.