{"id":986,"date":"2007-09-27T11:20:43","date_gmt":"2007-09-27T16:20:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/?p=986"},"modified":"2007-09-27T11:20:57","modified_gmt":"2007-09-27T16:20:57","slug":"instead-of-sending-humans-to-mars-11-times-the-usa-sent-them-on-a-mission-to-iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/2007\/09\/instead-of-sending-humans-to-mars-11-times-the-usa-sent-them-on-a-mission-to-iraq\/","title":{"rendered":"Instead of sending HUMANS to Mars 11 times, the USA sent them on a Mission to Iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/visual-equation.jpg\" rel=\"shadowbox[sbpost-986];player=img;\"  onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/visual-equation.jpg','popup','width=400,height=241,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/visual-equation-tm.jpg\" height=\"300\" width=\"497\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Visual Equation\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/burtonmackenzie.blogspot.com\/2007\/09\/instead-of-sending-humans-to-mars-11.html\" >Burton MacKenzie: Instead of sending HUMANS to Mars 11 times, the USA sent them on a Mission to Iraq www.burtonmackenzie.com<\/a>:<br \/>\nWEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 2007<\/p>\n<p>Instead of sending HUMANS to Mars 11 times, the USA sent them on a Mission to Iraq<br \/>\nWay back in the day (2004), President Bush promised to send people to Mars. NewScientist reported that the cost of the mission was &#8220;expected to cost $40 billion to $80 billion&#8221;. That really seemed like a lot of money.<\/p>\n<p>A year earlier, in 2003, Bush sent his country&#8217;s soldiers into Iraq. It is believed that as of September 27, 2007, the war in Iraq has cost the USA a whopping 454 Billion dollars! (and here&#8217;s even a more pessimistic estimate reported at The Boston Globe in 2006)<\/p>\n<p>If the original Mars estimate was accurate, that means that instead of going to Iraq, the USA could have funded somewhere between 5 and 11 independent human missions to Mars! By &#8220;independent&#8221;, I mean Mars mission programs that start from the ground up, and do not leverage each other&#8217;s technology, research, or manufacturing. In reality,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Burton MacKenzie: Instead of sending HUMANS to Mars 11 times, the USA sent them on a Mission to Iraq www.burtonmackenzie.com: WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 2007 Instead of sending HUMANS to Mars 11 times, the USA sent them on a Mission to Iraq Way back in the day (2004), President Bush promised to send people to Mars. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/2007\/09\/instead-of-sending-humans-to-mars-11-times-the-usa-sent-them-on-a-mission-to-iraq\/\"  class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Instead of sending HUMANS to Mars 11 times, the USA sent them on a Mission to Iraq<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4RRl-fU","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}