Roadmap to Mars?

NASA is putting together a "Roadmap to Mars."  Bureaus like to use catchy names for projects and appear to be "with it."  They are very like junior high school, but there any science club with an on-line computer could determine this trip is impossible today and tomorrow, if ever.  Should NASA figure out how to put "Men on Mars, just because it is there!" they will all die on it, literally "...out of gas!" And, the one gas we must have, oxygen.

The ten month trip is fully exposed to lethal radiation, with little shielding. Hitting one grain of sand in space would destroy the craft and the failure of one life support system kills the crew.  It is a one-way trip!  We do not ask our people to commit suicide! 

However NASA is set on Mars and the agency wants to plan strategies with a launch schedule, hardware development and cost estimation to get to a presentation point for Congress!  Scott Hubbard, former NASA "Mars czar," reorganized the agency's robotic Red Planet exploration program after it had several big failures in the 1990s. He is now at Stanford University and a member of the NASA Advisory Council.  Success in a government bureau is truly a form of eternal life.

The Mars mission intransigence of NASA is only topped by the arrogance, avarice and insanity of the looney bin of American science, the EPA.   NASA competes with them for the Greatest Stupidity Prize of all time.  Where is the National Oceanic Administration, the people that actually could hold the keys to our future?  They are strangely silent when they should be shouting at these two bureaus. 

The seas are our real future in every field.  They can well feed, clothe and energize the future; produce more  gold from one cubic mile of seawater than all that ever was in Fort Knox.  Rumor abounds there is none there today.

Meanwhile, back on Mars the first spaceship from Earth arrives, but half of the Astronauts are dead from radiation over the ten months they have been in transit, likely in a drugged suspended animation. Their bone have turned to gelatin from calcium loss, but the good news is that the two remaining crew members now have twice as much air to maintain them.  They will enjoy being on Mars for two weeks instead of one!  What a deal!  Must have been a Democrat plan:  Big promise; bad outcome.

Perhaps they will name their first base Baltimore as 72% of the money we have spent on that city during the Obama Administration cannot be accounted for.  But, whenever has the elected ruling class had to account for anything?  Why aren't the Clintons in jail for life?

Meanwhile back at NASA serious-faced men in suits are talking about the Mars trip as if it were happening because this keeps a lot of guys with Ph.D.s employed and that is reason we are hearing about a "Roadmap to Mars."

Adrian Vance