You make a lot of good points. Maybe you miss a couple things in your conclusions but at this stage I'm not going to argue any of the funding point any further.
As for Viking, It was a "failure" in the sense that expectations were so different about what we would find on Mars. Before Viking, for a century many thought Mars was a living planet. When the pictures came back of a dead planet that looked a lot like the moon, public interest dissolved. When the experiments for life were inconclusive funding dried up for more Mars probes. I think I read somewhere that Viking cost taxpayers over $7 billion if adjusted to 2026 dollars.
At any rate, this particular topic has run its course and I think I will be careful addressing it again in the future. I acknowledge you for your detailed explanations, and I both appreciate them and have learned from them.
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- Dragonfly mission to Titan
- Believe me, NASA knows what its doing.
- To be fair
- Dude...?
- Bro...?
- Microscopes are designed to identify EARTH microbes,
- NASA oversold the prospect of life on Mars in the 1970s
- Again, not a conspiracy
- Microscopes are designed to identify EARTH microbes,
- Bro...?
- Dude...?
- To be fair
- Believe me, NASA knows what its doing.