Re:Someone's gotta do it. (Score 1)

Well, maybe that is exactly what it would take.

We (Americans, or more accurately the government, congress, funding priorities, et al) usually can't get our collective 'will' directed until there is a threat. I would bet that if there was another nation that announced, heck even looked like they might get off the dime and get a man to Mars, it would suddenly become a priority...