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This is why we must invest in ourselves!

esiegel | August 6, 2012

“We are much closer today to being able to send humans to Mars than we were to being able to send men to the moon in 1961, and we were there eight years later. Given the will, we could have humans on Mars within a decade.” -Robert Zubrin This is what we can accomplish when we invest in something big. Image credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / Mars Science Laboratory. I'm not talking about the Olympics, of course. I'm talking about investing in science, in exploration, in robotics, in engineering, in technology, and in humanity, and what can we accomplish? Image credit: Mars Curiosity / NASA / JPL…

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