What you get is 10% of the science result for 0.5% of the cost. Live with it.

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What you get is 10% of the science result for 0.5% of the cost. Live with it.

pwokenyaw — 9/27/2006 9:21:28 PM (archived)

My guess is $200 billion for a manned trip to Mars. What we're doing is cost-effective, while VISE will kill all the science in its path.

Funny to see someone put down the MERs when they're such an effective refutation of manned space "science." People see what they want to see, I guess.

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After many, many SOL's.... Victoria! - REB - 9/27/2006 12:46:37 PM
- Wonderful - Donald - 9/28/2006 12:49:59 AM
- Slopes are surprisingly smooth. (n/t) - Robert Clark - 9/27/2006 5:04:22 PM
- re: Let's go mountainclimbing! - Raoul - 9/27/2006 3:33:52 PM
  - Sorry We Sent Robots Not Humans - ID - 9/27/2006 4:54:54 PM
    - We will let robots mountain climb on heavenly bodies... - alcaray - 9/28/2006 8:22:41 PM
    - re: Sorry We Sent Robots Not Humans - REB - 9/28/2006 12:54:31 PM
    - What you get is 10% of the science result for 0.5% of the cost. Live with it. - pwokenyaw - 9/27/2006 9:21:28 PM
      - Unless You Got Your Numbers Backwards - Mark Eby - 9/28/2006 2:38:29 AM
      - Baloney - Mark Eby - 9/28/2006 2:06:35 AM
        
        Baloney back at ya - pwokenyaw - 9/28/2006 4:12:16 PM
        
        re: Baloney back at ya - Mark Eby - 10/3/2006 2:06:45 AM
        
        let's try it again - pwokenyaw - 10/3/2006 3:58:27 PM
    - re: Sorry We Sent Robots Not Humans - LJK - 9/27/2006 5:23:54 PM
      - You Didn't Think That Was My Point? - ID - 9/27/2006 7:21:47 PM
        
        Now THAT would be a great experiment - E.P. - 9/28/2006 12:42:30 AM
        
        re: Now THAT would be a great experiment - Mark Eby - 9/28/2006 2:12:49 AM
        
        re: Now THAT would be a great experiment - E.P. - 9/28/2006 5:28:03 AM
        
        Well The People That Plan Space Misisons Are Smarter Than You - ID - 9/28/2006 1:28:43 PM
        
        Okay: Drop the bedrest, but please try rappeling in a full 0-pressure suit real soon (n/t) - E.P. - 9/29/2006 3:46:51 AM
        
        re: First, it is not clear you would need to rapple there. Second, have you ever climbed rock and third, have you every wore a pressure suit of anykind? - Chris Vancil - 9/29/2006 7:49:14 AM
        
        re: Scott and Irwin did not go down the Hadley slopes.. - Raoul - 9/27/2006 9:43:53 PM
        
        Gee and how many months was he on the Moon? - Mark Eby - 9/28/2006 2:20:20 AM
        
        re: Gee and how many months was he on the Moon? - pwokenyaw - 9/28/2006 7:21:35 PM
        
        Reasonable Guesses - Mark Eby - 10/3/2006 2:12:07 AM
        
        re: Time, priorities and scale - Raoul - 9/28/2006 1:10:20 PM
        
        Hadley Rille is also 400 meters deep in places. - Jacob Samorodin - 9/27/2006 10:42:10 PM
        
        re:Future robots - Raoul - 9/28/2006 8:21:24 AM
        
        Why climb? - azstrummer - 9/28/2006 5:23:01 PM
        
        re: Agreed (n/t) - Raoul - 9/28/2006 5:51:23 PM
- My God! It's full of... sand! (n/t) - Laurie Street - 9/27/2006 2:42:35 PM
- Dissappointing - ID - 9/27/2006 2:35:33 PM
  - re: Dissappointing - Buck Galaxy - 9/28/2006 8:51:26 AM
  - re: Dissappointing - Delbert - 9/27/2006 6:37:37 PM
  - re: Wait until we get the whole picture (n/t) - Raoul - 9/27/2006 2:55:40 PM
- And from the Nav Cam - REB - 9/27/2006 12:49:46 PM
  - re: And from the Nav Cam - REB - 9/27/2006 12:51:02 PM
    - re: And from the Nav Cam - Tom Brosz - 9/27/2006 4:13:19 PM
      - re: And from the Nav Cam - REB - 9/27/2006 5:25:03 PM
    - re: Fantastic! (n/t) - Raoul - 9/27/2006 2:39:05 PM
      - Wow. Look at the ... sand - LJK - 9/27/2006 4:12:46 PM
        
        re: Around - Raoul - 9/27/2006 4:24:41 PM
        
        re: Around - azstrummer - 9/27/2006 5:38:35 PM

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