Humans and the space race

Okay, so people (mostly me) have been talking a lot lately about the future of space exploration and Terran society. With the world fracturing as it is, people are looking to the stars for plain survival. NASA has said that they want a trip back and have a base established by 2019 with a manned mars mission by the same date. Franky, I say that's not good enough. We could've been on mars by now. We could've been that far along. We had the tech and the drive to be on Mars by 1985. Instead, the US goverment decided that it would be best to pursue the Orbital Shuttle program *cough* idiots *cough*. Speaking of which, that program is due to be retired by the end of this year with, whadda ya know, no American replacement ready or even under construction. With the Russians due to take over resupply missions to the ISS. Now, I won't bash the importance of the International Space Station. It's a damn good project. But that said, it shouldn't be a PRIMARY concern. It should have been a thing that got built while we were planning for the trip to Mars. (I'll be giving my ideas for the Mars missions in a later post) And now, the Obama administration is poised to CUT the budget for the NASA Constellation project, which was to develop vehicles to take us to Luna and Mars. Frankly, the ONLY good thing the Bush administration did was to pour shitloads of cash into NASA's budget. And now Obama is saying "Well, we need the monies for the millitary, so NASA, you ain't getting anything" which annoys me, but more so, it confirms the thought that the first country to put a Terran on Mars will be either Russia or China (most likely China). I'm glad. Let someone else other than the US of A get there first. Might show the Americans that they are NOT in fact the greatest Country on Terra firma.

Now, I realize that we can't time travel (yet!) and complaining only goes so far. All I'm saying is that we need to look back to the stars and realize that we need to get back out there. We NEED to go out and colonize Luna and Mars, probably in that order. It will be a step forward for our society, and considering that over the past decade, we've taken about a dozen steps backwards, we NEED this. We NEED to get back into space. Not spend the money on a new missile that can smell it's target. Though that would be kinda cool.

This will probably be how it happens for the manned missions to Mars. China first. Russia second. ESA third. USA dead last. Obama, don't fuck this up for North America.

People need to get it in their minds that we are ALL of the same species. People need to start realizing that unless we start working together and working to better our species, we simply don't deserve to exist. If all we are going to do is point fingers and say "My god is better than your god even though both are exactly the same god, but we worship differently" and hate each other, exploit each other for meaningless profit and just look for new ways to kill each other, then I say, don't wait. LAUNCH THE NUKES!

So, simply. Get the act together. Learn to listen and understand. Learn that we are all the same, despite the small differences. And realize that space is the goal we should all work together. Learn that we must extend our reach to the stars.

MARS OR BUST!