Re:Common sense (Score 1)

Even if NASA suddenly wanted to adopt your plan to send people to Mars as unreturnable lemmings, they would never do it. The key variable here is not human lives, its dollars spent. A one-way trip to Mars costs billions. Until a one-way trip costs an order of magnitude less than a round-trip, we can never leave humans on Mars no matter what country they are launched from. And this doesn't even begin to touch on the PR disaster one-way flights would create (at least here in the US).