Comment If we do noting - that is exactly what will happen (Score 1) 473
By Anders logic, he shouldn't have gone to the moon. Why was he even in the program, much less a mission if he holds the beliefs he states?
Humans tend to explore, they tend to solve difficult problems (some better than others). No one says it will be easy, no one says it will be safe. At one time going to California wasn't safe... Now we can do it in hours.
As for Nye - we won't do anything we don't dream and try. He cannot know that we won't live on Mars - no more than people could have known about a million inventions. We may have to create an artificial magnetic core or similar to maintain an atmosphere - still it is possible. Just because we don't have a grasp of how at this time is frankly just a stumbling block to be overcome.