Forwarding Address...MARS

So there's been a lot of talk in the news lately about sending folks to MARS to colonize the planet. From what I've read, it's going to cost an estimated 6 BILLION dollars to send the first group of 24 folks there.

CAN YOU BELIEVE THIS?!?

I am simply floored!

Do you know how many homeless folk could be HOUSED with that much money? Or how many hungry folks could be FED? How many schools could be BUILT? I could go on and on.

But instead, that money will be spent toward sending folks to a planet that we're not even sure can sustain human life. For all we know, they'll get there (and that's if they even survive the trip), get a few whiffs of that Martian air and DIE. We just don't know!!!

Anyway...I'm curious to see who the candidates actually are, and how many "chocolate folks" are on the list. Spending the rest of ones life on MARS just doesn't seem like the kinda thing that "we" do. But who knows...I may be surprised.

So what are your thoughts?

Let the DIALOGUE begin: If it was GUARANTEED that Mars actually COULD sustain human life, would YOU want to live there?

Talk to me!

Til next time...