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Francis Rocard, astrophysicist with France’s CNES’s Mars exploration programme

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As the world worries about worsening economic times, have we lost our fascination for what lies beyond the stars? Not according to French astrophysicist, Francis Rocard, who talks to Annette Young about how the French Space Studies Centre (CNES) is playing a key role in NASA’s latest mission to Mars to search for clues of life on the Red Planet.

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Comments (1)

morgan

by Anonyme - 09/12/2011 - 17:45

maybe we are justified in approaching the planets and moons in our local universe, but 'beyond the stars'? forget that, When I see news items such as....
"Hey boys we've just spotted an earth type world, just 600 light years away!".....

I gasp in incredulity with the naivety of those who put such stress on their announcement.

Unless we suddenly discover some means to 'bridge the gap', between galaxies, al la Stargate, there is not a snowballs chance in hell of any human being ever reaching that earth like planet.

Present and prospective methods of escaping our earth bound existence places travel to such distant regions on the back-burner for possibly the entire life time of the human race.

Sci Fi, it is and Sci Fi it will remain.

Put it on your bookshelf along with ufo'S, crop circles, and all the other crap purporting to be fact and achievable.

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