I feel the same. It's pathetic the kind of money they'll spend to do this, considering the debt the US is in. Imagine what that much money could do for the world. And not only that, if the US are the first to do this, they'll ultimately have control over that planet, who knows what that means for space exploration in the future. I can imagine it'll mean countries paying the US a hefty fee to travel there.
Yea, I forgot about that. Although Richard Branson does a lot of humanitarian work and donates a lot of money to good causes, so I have no real qualms there.
This kinda sounds eerily like Wall-E. Except, instead of the fucking massive space station, it's Mars. That movie was creepy.
i bet mars would get pretty boring after a while and $1 million would probably be good enough to fund the research for this project for a month
if you were implying "a lot," they're still government workers. but then there's facility costs. and i'm sure some of the individual experiments needed for this would be over a million each.
I was thinking collectively as there would be a considerable amount of them so within one month perhaps the wage budget would exceed 1 million easy.
I just went to the nasa.gov site and went to contact the person and I told them I'm the man. I'm waiting on my email reply. I'll post it.