Originally Posted by wilsel
I used to be so against all these billion dollar missions. Fact is we will have to look outside our solar system to find another planet that would support human life. A friend opened my eyes though. There have been so many things/materials created that we use in our everyday lives from the engineering done for space exploration. Things we all take for granted, that would of possibly never been created (atleast not so soon) if it wasn't for the space program. 100 yrs ago no one would of ever thought man would one day land on the moon. The next 100 yrs should advance even further.
Fact is huh? So you have personally been to each planet and moon of each planet and have multple PH.D's in various forms of science huh? And what are you doing on HAN?
They have recently discovered that Mars, at the very least, had an atmosphere, north and south poles, and even what they think is running water. Building blocks for life. They have also seens some of these properties on some of the moons of Jupiter and Saturn.
So are you wrong? No. I'm just saying that in this situation one needs to choose words carefully. More and more of our planets in our solar system look like they might be or were inhabitable at one point. Very possible they can be again with a little help from us.