Meta joined in and replied with this 1 year ago, 6 minutes later[^][v]#1,335,282
Yeah this was definitely worth billions of dollars to get pictures of the same lifeless shitty brown desert we have seen from every Mars lander since 1976.
The rover's goals include identifying ancient Martian environments capable of supporting life, seeking out evidence of former microbial life existing in those environments, collecting rock and soil samples to store on the Martian surface, and testing oxygen production from the Martian atmosphere to prepare for future crewed missions.[12]
Anonymous J joined in and replied with this 1 year ago, 17 minutes later, 13 hours after the original post[^][v]#1,335,403
@1,335,395 (D)
They have been doing this shit for years. Look at the pictures? Who in the fuck would want to go there? I'd rather visit death valley or the Sahara desert, at least you could see a scorpion or two running around.
That money could be put to way better use than fucking around on something that is nothing but a wasteland of nothingness.
Anonymous A (OP) replied with this 1 year ago, 5 hours later, 19 hours after the original post[^][v]#1,335,482
@1,335,400 (Meta)
It is about intellectual curiosity and exploration. Not everything has to have an immediate, practical monetary benefit. That's what I meant when I said that you have no intellectual curiosity. It's knowledge for its own sake.
Anonymous A (OP) replied with this 1 year ago, 55 minutes later, 21 hours after the original post[^][v]#1,335,511
@previous (Meta)
Some, yes. We learn more about the universe and science. The more we know about that, the further we can elevate mankind. Also, again, knowledge in itself has an intrinsic value.