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<blockquote data-quote="Derren" data-source="post: 6113195" data-attributes="member: 2518">You have not offered any reasoning for that.We do not struggle to launch one, we have done so a lot of times already, be it a touchdown, orbital satellite or flyby. Since the 70s the only problems the USA had was making a soft landing with the probe, which is hardly a concern for a weapon. All of those missions reached mars. We would have absolutely no problem of taking one of those designs which work and copy it a few thousand times. In the real world we would need to expand our industrial capability to do that, but thats because there is no need to send that many probes to mars all at the same time, so no energy is wasted on that.In the OPs universe where we know there is life on mars which can potentially wipe us out we sure as hell would create this industrial capability.As comparison, how quickly did the US and UDSSR go from &quot;struggling to build 1 atomic bomb&quot; to having an arsenal of thousands of bombs and ICBMs?Yes, but this technology didn't really got used with that much zeal until the goal was beating the other superpower. Do you really thing the USA would have gone from satellite to moon landing faster than 12 years if there wasn't a race to beat the Russians?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Derren, post: 6113195, member: 2518"] You have not offered any reasoning for that. We do not struggle to launch one, we have done so a lot of times already, be it a touchdown, orbital satellite or flyby. Since the 70s the only problems the USA had was making a soft landing with the probe, which is hardly a concern for a weapon. All of those missions reached mars. We would have absolutely no problem of taking one of those designs which work and copy it a few thousand times. In the real world we would need to expand our industrial capability to do that, but thats because there is no need to send that many probes to mars all at the same time, so no energy is wasted on that. In the OPs universe where we know there is life on mars which can potentially wipe us out we sure as hell would create this industrial capability. As comparison, how quickly did the US and UDSSR go from "struggling to build 1 atomic bomb" to having an arsenal of thousands of bombs and ICBMs? Yes, but this technology didn't really got used with that much zeal until the goal was beating the other superpower. Do you really thing the USA would have gone from satellite to moon landing faster than 12 years if there wasn't a race to beat the Russians? [/QUOTE]

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