General Discussion

Once those robots are rolling off the automated assembly line TO SERVE MANKIND takes on the other meaning. It has long been clear that the frenzy to go to Mars was the megalomaniac frenzy from the James Bond film NOT some utopian multi-planet species BS. They'll need the rest of earth's $400 trillion collective wealth to develop the tech and build out the habitats and rockets for the 50000 or so who will make up this new eden. The rest of us will fight over the meager scrapings of non productive farmlands turned to deserts and ocean fisheries acidified to barren debris fields. That's why the environmental piece is being abandoned & NASA's geological mission is abandoned, they want all that energy devoted to leaving the rest of us suckers behind.