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Forum:	Free Space
Topic:	Red Bull Stratos: Felix Baumgartner's skydive

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Your Reply: HTML is ON UBB Code is ON Smilies Legend	[QUOTE]Originally posted by moorouge: [B]Science or stunt? It would seem that we have the answer from Baumgartner himself. In a [URL=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/space/9636188/Fearless-Felix-Baumgartner-Mars-is-a-waste-of-money.html]reported interview[/URL] in New York he said, <BLOCKQUOTE>[i]So I think we should perhaps spend all the money [which is] going to Mars to learn about Earth. I mean, you cannot send people there because it is just too far away. That little knowledge we get from Mars I don't think makes sense.[/i]</BLOCKQUOTE> This quote was given in an interview with a reporter from the Daily Telegraph (a UK newspaper) during which Baumgartner said also that the U.S. government should divert money from the NASA space budget for Mars to environmental projects on Earth. Referencing Richard Branson's recent comments he said, "[i]It sounds like he wants to use our positive momentum and gain publicity on his side and that is kind of lame.[/i]" Both comments, to me, are hardly those of a scientist interested in pure research.[/B][/QUOTE]
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