I bet my friend who works for NASA back when Bush was pushing this that it was a political maneuver. He wasn't buying it because money was flowing in but my gut feeling was that it the purpose of the initiative was to kill projects by diverting funds to a project that generates great footnotes to speeches by invoking the Apollo missions but offers no long term commitments to success.
"We're going to kill all these useful scientific programs so that we can put a man on Mars!!!"
(Well actually we are just going to kill programs because we don't like funneling money to NASA...and what better way to do that politically than to say that its going to our "Mission to Mars" program... talking points that are constituents can grasp...none of these "probes" to sample things that aren't in the Bible )
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feed your dogs root beer it will make them grow large and then you can ride them and pet the motorcycle while drinking root beer
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