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November 13th 2014, 11:56 AM
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I wish there'd be more independent space expeditions. These days they'd be very much possible with Kickstarter and stuff like that. If a video game can gather two million dollars, I'm sure many people could gather the money to build their own rovers and satellites to send to space. It'd be nice to see somebody who ACTUALLY wants to discover things from space and release them to the public to do this. Not this NASA style crap where they carefully pick which photos will be released to the public. Even the ones that are have been blurred and edited beyond recognition. Heck, I'm still not 100% confident all those pictures even are from Mars.

How about sending a rover into the holes in Mars, as Scratcher said? How about actually taking the rover to study and take pictures of things that seem curious? NASA is all like: "No, we're digging sand for pointless reasons instead of looking at this horse fossil we can clearly see in the picture". How about exploring the Cydonia pyramids and sphinx, as well as the countless other structures there, and determine once and for all if Mars once had intelligent life and if it was in connection with Earth? Heck, Cydonia would be the FIRST place I'd send a rover to if I was them, yet they completely ignore it. How about sending a rover to Phobos to take a look at what that monolith there is all about? How about even sending a rover to the dark side of the moon? For God's sake, humans walked on the moon half a century ago, and despite all these things we've sent to space, we've yet to fully explore the dark side of the moon!