Comment Re:Mars (Score 1) 274
Yes indeedy, I can see a bunch of sailors milling about on the docks in Portugal circa 1500 A.D., saying things like: " Europe is a mess. Let's stop exploring and colonizing the Americas until we get things fixed over here. These voyages are too much of a drain on the national treasury anyhow; why, the Queen of Spain had to hock her jewels to finance the first mission!"
