My views on space travel

In the 1960's, there was a massive anti-space program movement that was under the ridiculous and probably pot-induced belief that the space program would destroy the world or something to that effect. Hippies were afraid of something bad happening because of the space program is my point-they wanted us to stay on the earth and away from the moon. Nowadays we're having a similar problem about going to Mars-apparently it is a bad idea.

In my opinion, this is stupid. What do these people want us to do, stay far back in the cave, watching and fearing the big ball of fire in the sky while we wonder what those shadows leaking in to the edge of the tunnel are? Obviously, that is what they want-these people are highly detrimental to human society: they are too afraid. These Liberal pinko weirdos want us to remain on earth, forever fearing what lays beyond our atmosphere. What does this result in? We might not notice the effects for some time but, eventually, we will get considerably more docile and timid, because eventually we're going to run outta wars on earth. Don't get me wrong, runnin' outta wars on earth is a good thing in some ways, but once we solve all of our problems and immerse ourselves in docility, we'll be too bloody timid to ever leave this planet. What happens then? Here's your answer: we gobble up all the resources in a few hundred years, and then we begin starving. Our planet begins to starve and our species begins to die out because some jackass in the 21st century said that going to space was a bad idea. We take everything that earth can give and we can't replenish it or our dying species because we were too cowardly to go into space and by now, when we really need to go into space, we can't because we've forgotten what to do. I figure that if we're not colonizing Mars by 2700, we'll be doomed.

But there's another problem I've got. My rant ain't over yet. It's the people they're sending into space-they're sending indecisive kids with a leadership problem. More and more NASA is refusing to send disciplined, tough and probably hard-drinking sons of bitches into space and are instead putting nice, weak and just generally girlish people into orbit. Let's say we go to Mars-we'll be sending kids and average Joes over to a planet on a year-round trip. People who have no discipline and are only chosen for their smarts are sent to a hostile climate in cramped quarters with people that they will eventually get tired of. For all we know, they won't even reach Mars because they'll be busy ringing each others' necks after spending six months with someone who has bad BO. So who should we send? The Navy! The USMC! Those guys, especially the navy, have discipline, can and have in the past lived in cramped conditions for years at a time when they were on ships or in submarines. The USMC? Hell, even the infantry would do good because they train these people to spend months in bunkers-tight, concrete-made bunkers with a sergeant they don't like, a corporal that just plain annoys them, and a private who might be going insane. They're used to these conditions and they would do fine in space. Think about it, folks.