Politically speaking, why the fuck is NASA so focused on this shithole?

>dude, we need a tenth rover there because SCIENCE lmao
We know there's nothing there and it's totally uninhabitable. Making a base there or sending humans is a huge fucking waste of resources. There are a gorillion other places more interesting and worthwhile for SCIENCE in the solar system like Titan or Europa for instance, but instead they've focused on this barren shithole for decades. Why? Even sending a fucking weather balloon to Venus would be better.

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FARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRT

because it doesnt exist

Do you have autism

this
space is fake and gay

Its a prime location to set up factories that take harvested asteroids in turn them into goods. The off gas pollution could be used to terraform the planet and its cheaper made/ operate those factories.

>Dead planet with weak magnetosphere

There are opportunities on Mars, but the idea that we could ever live there outside of a box is retarded.

It's relatively close and our instruments don't fry when they get close, that's basically it's value. It's a toy for Musk and his ilk to play around with. A stepping stone if you will. It's the same reason people climb Mt. Everest. Putting an actual colony on Mars would be a monumentally expensive disaster though

Yes.

Na Ganymede a Titan,
i já letěl tam.
Města pořád stejná,
jen jedno z nich v srdci mám.
Lunar, město sedmé,
tam nám bude fajn.

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look faggot, this planet Mars is about as good a jumping point for Interplanetary travel we are gonna get
1/3 gravity, some atmosphere, enough sun to generate power from solar and just enough wind to create supplemental turbines for wind power
you're just a whiny entitled princess with your oxygen and your plants
you fuckin pussy

NASA doesn’t give a shit about Mars their current slogan is “off the earth, for the earth” they mostly study climate science

90% of the federal government is an illegal jobs program.

Because of the imagery and symbolism. Setting up asteroid mining operations or building a lunar space elevator and colony doesn't sound nearly as exciting to the normalfags

It's plan D for the elite to flee if a,b and c fails

Mars is our original home and its loaded With lost high technology and ruins.

it's a long story, but i wouldn't trust anything the "nasa" says.
t. mars dominant pisces

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>we found nothing
>but governments and corps are all dead set on spending what it takes to get more equipment there
This is where we seem to separate.
There is most likely something there but they aren't telling and are doing what they can to placate people as they continue spending public money for personal gain.

It practically has no magnetosphere, the soil is toxic, and it takes 2 years to reach there with non-nuclear propulsion. I'd focus on the moon if it weren't for normalniggers and their need for symbolism

Once they establish the colony, their priorities will be
A) Eugenic selection of colonist candidates
B) Get the colony self-sustainable
C) Get a large enough population to avoid genetic bottlenecking with some oversight on reproduction

Meanwhile on Earth, people are pushed more and more into cities in the name of restoring the environment, which they do, but once people are all here in, the wealthy investors can cash in their tickets and go to mars where each metropolitan area gets hit with a thermonuclear bomb. Then Earth will be called New Eden

Precious metals

Our original home was the planet that is now an asteroid belt.
We blew up a planet and still didn't learn.

yeah stupid we gotta do the Moon long before Mars
it's simple order of operations.. but Mars is next AFTER the moon, it's pretty indisputable