2 Earths

[Sixth_Rule]

I was just thinking the other day while reading about the Mars rovers. We send those things to mars because we are generally curious, but there will probably never be any actual benifit.

What if Mars (or Venus) was an Earth Clone. You know a life sustaining carbon rich planet with plants and animals and oceans. It dosn't have to be 80% water or even breathable air but it does have to sustain at least plant life.

Now can you imagin how much our society would benifit from a planet that we absolutly HAVE to explore exploit and populate??

I think over all we would at least have a method of travel between these the planets by now, our space program (and MANY other Technogies that are related) would be leaps and bounds above what they are now.

I think the discovery of the new world was deffinatly a accelerator to the industrial age and an actual new World would have advanced us much more quickly.