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So it occured to me today when some friends were talking about the cost of launching a cube satellite (CubeSat - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia) that would do one of a couple of novel things, that it would cost the US ~10 billion dollars to put that cube on Mars. Well, ~10B to slam that cube into Mars. So any manned mission to Mars would be an open invitation for the right to scream "Why aren't you helping people on Earth, Obama?!", "This President cares more about some red dust ball than he does the millions of unemployed in this Nation!"
I still won't take the bet, but I would be surprised if it came true.
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