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Comment: Re:Pork, Pork, Pork (Score 1) 252

" Manned mission cost many orders of magnitude more than unmanned while delivering a tiny fraction of the science of unmanned missions"
Misconception.

Manned mission can do huge amount of science that robotic missions can not, and they have a wider scope of capabilities.

Yes, send rovers, send robots, but send people was well. The benefits in RnD, hope, excitement, and the ability to just grab a shovel and find something interesting should not be underestimated.
If people aren't excited about spaceflight, then eventually even the robotic mission will be cancelled.

A human could literally car a robot somewhere they they observed to be interesting, let it go do it's thing in that area.

Comment: Re:Do it... but do it right (Score 1) 252

"But I really want to see the space program get done correctly. "
so what crystal ball do you use to tell what is the correct way to do something that hasn't
't been done before using technology that will have come into existence for this specific project?

Oh right, you're opinion based on NOTHING is the correct way.

Comment: Re:no (Score 1) 252

There are a lot of high paying STEM jobs.

And kids don't thing of money, they think of cool things. The find out about 'cool thing' from the media. So having a Space Program that is big, and exciting and in the news has kids want to go into engineering and science.
Most kids don't even realize there is a pay differences in jobs until the are between 10-12.

Do you really think some 9 year old sits down and does a cost analysis between careers to determine what they want to do?
ALL you would see is an influx of crappy engineers and Scientists, along with pressure to create an easier path for a PE via trade schools.

If you want to use money as a motivate, guarantee them time off and a good retirement.
And engineer and scientist should get a sabbatical every 5 years, and 50% of there averaged pay in retirement.

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