Benefits Outweigh The Cost Of Exploring Mars

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Although some say exploring Mars will lead to huge discoveries and appeal to curiosity, the risks are still important to understand and notice. People with financial benefits are spending money and resources on space exploration. You could provide about 360 thousand homeless families with a nice, average-sized home, with the money it takes to go to Mars. We still need to consider if the benefits outweigh the costs. Chronic boredom, getting stuck on Mars, and the changes the new environment will have on us, are the risks of exploring Mars and outweigh the costs. The first reason we should not spend valuable resources on travel, and exploration of Mars, is chronic boredom. If astronauts have chronic boredom, this could be dangerous for the exploration. …show more content…

Who knows if the environment of Mars could change us? Maybe even entirely, resulting in the danger of the astronauts. This could be dangerous, and very risky. Another reader might say that we should spend valuable resources to go to Mars. The reason he or she might think this is because we as humans crave curiosity and new information. The evidence to support this is in the text, Main Street, and in paragraph 12 states, “If we stop exploring space, soon, society will have forgotten what it’s like to be human.” However, my position is stronger because it is more important to save the lives of astronauts, save valuable resources, and give homes to the homeless, than to slightly pleasing ourselves that we explore. In conclusion, we should not spend valuable resources on a mission to Mars. Chronic boredom can be dangerous to the brain, and the safety of those on the mission. Getting stuck on Mars could be a waste of resources, and once again, risk the lives of those on the

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