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The article's headline (and much of the text) is pretty vague. The astronaut apparently doesn't think we will get there "soon" - whatever that means.

If we look at it in perspective of all 5,000 or so years or recorded human history, I'd say we WILL be there pretty darn soon. Just maybe not next year.

👤ElectricalPast🕑7y🔼0🗨️0

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Not the headline. It actually says: "Former astronaut doubts that NASA or SpaceX will make it to Mars with their shiny new rockets"

Which is, of course, no surprise to anyone, lease of all NASA and SpaceX.

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It would have been pretty easy to say the same thing in 1965 about the moon...
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Who cares? Why are we supposed to be interested in why someone thinks (with no analytical insight to back it up) one of our brightest will fail? Everyone thinks Musk will fail at everything he does, yet here we are. Can we stop submitting articles reinforcing the notion?
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