• StaticFalconar@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Fifty years later we have reached mars with drones and created space probes to expand our knowledge of space.

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      3 months ago

      We reached Mars with probes 50 years ago. I’m not in any way trying to denigrate the amazing achievements of the Mars rovers. But the fact remains that a human crew could have done all that and more (like drill a hole) in a few weeks at best.

      • anomnom@sh.itjust.works
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        3 months ago

        And 59 years after landing on the moon we’ve just been watching Space X rockets explode instead of going back on rockets NASA proved it could engineer with slide rules and drafting tables.