Maciej Cegłowski
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From one piece Why Not Mars 9 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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The crewed Mars programme is the biggest project in history and nobody can say what it is for.Their words
Somehow we’ve embarked on the biggest project in history even though it has no articulable purpose, offers no benefits, and will cost taxpayers more than a good-sized war.
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So I’ve come to believe the best way to look at our Mars program is as a faith-based initiative.
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Planetary protection rules will keep astronauts on Mars away from everything on Mars worth studying.Their words
The phenomena of greatest scientific interest on Mars (gullies, recurrent slope lineae, intermittent methane sources, and underground water) will all be off-limits to astronauts.
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Landing people on Mars would contaminate it and destroy the evidence of life we went there to find.Their words
Like careless investigators who didn’t wear gloves to a crime scene, we would risk permanently destroying the evidence we came to collect.
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With our current capability, NASA would struggle to keep a crew alive for six months on the White House lawn, let alone for years in a Martian yurt.
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The International Space Station exists mainly to teach its builders how to build another space station.Their words
The ISS crew spend most of their time fixing the machinery that keeps them alive, and when they have a free moment for science, they tend to study the effect of space on themselves.
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A crewed spacecraft does no work: putting people aboard is what stops a mission getting anything done.Their words
In 2023, we simply take it for granted that if a rocket goes up carrying passengers, it’s not going to get any work done.
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Fifty years of miniaturisation have made robotic spacecraft better and cheaper explorers than astronauts.Their words
But fifty years of progress in miniaturization and software changed the balance between robots and humans in space.
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The goal of this essay is to persuade you that we shouldn’t send human beings to Mars, at least not anytime soon.
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