+1 Thank you for this. Very well said.

> This show from Austin City Limits... captures it pretty well

Wow, that show is nothing less than epic!

Thanks for sharing +1

Good points on both sides of the debate. Why not do both? Imagine the "we" is really 7.4 billion people (~195 countries) so it would seem that surely we could support each others' efforts to reach both destinations. What an achievement for humanity that would be!

It's a nice sentiment, but if you pool all the money NASA devote to human spaceflight there's barely enough to maintain R&D for a Mars mission with landing in the next 15-20 years, any split in funding between Mars and a manned Moon program, you're seeing a Mars landing easily past 2050.

It's really a zero-sum game, unfortunately.

I believe WOOKIE_pizza was referencing an international effort.