No, they came because Columbus brought back gold from the first trip. Read his journals where he is panicking because 1) he didn’t land in India, and 2) there were just Native Americans living their lives simply and comfortably.

You are completely not understanding reality.

They are way less because people just had to send in a video, which is easy to do. You are adjusting them up because a documentary followed six of them -- not selected randomly but selected because they had good stories to tell.

The same as it was for Iraq -- oil. Controlling what countries get access and what countries don’t. The reason doesn’t always have to be about enriching yourself; many times it is about limiting your enemy’s ability to make money.

You didn’t send anyone to moon. The people who worked on it knew what the deal was -- beating the Russians.

I’m saying that they don’t matter and their numbers are way less than you think. After the first hundred or so die with nothing to show for it than you were on Mars, the number of interested parties GOES DOWN, not up.

There is no gold. There is nothing there of value on Earth.

Said no one ever. Columbus brought back gold from his trip to the Americas. Gold is valuable. People will risk life to make riches; they will not risk life for “exploration”.

No questions is ALWAYS why. People didn’t spread to every corner of the planet because of whimsy, they did it because of hard economic reasons -- there is food there, there is gold there, there is water there, etc.

LOL, the country was excited about beating Russia. The venue just happened to be space. You are another goober who is buying into the propaganda instead of the real reason a man was sent to the moon -- to show the world that capitalism is better than communism.

They would die horrible, lonely deaths. That is not an advertisement to get more people than the few thousand to go. Europeans went to the Americans because Columbus brought back gold. Seeing someone eek out a miserable existence on a distant planet is bullshit; people can and are doing that right here on Earth.

Those trillions were spent because there was an economic reason for the U.S. to bomb the Middle East. There is no economic reason to send people into space to live on an uninhabitable planet.

Didn’t England send prisoners to Australia?

There are not plenty of volunteers. You are not desperate enough to leave everything to start over. You like to think that you are, but you are not.

No, its not. Europeans didn’t come to the Americans just because, they came because Columbus demonstrated that there was gold to be had. No one has demonstrated that you can make a profit by sending people into space.

First, people were already on the other side of the Atlantic. Second, there were many wars that were fought and are still being fought over arbitrary lines in the ground.

Until we get rid of terroritoral disputes on Earth, there is no way that there will be a colonization of another planet. Colonization is a global effort.

But there is money to made in the U.S. What money is there to be made living on Mars?

This is never going to happen. You goobers and Musk fell for the romanticized version of the Space Race, i.e., it is about “exploration” and “scientific discovery”. The Space Race was one of the many proxy battles fought during the Cold War. It was primarily a military campaign; the invention of Tang and networked…