Haha, you don't have ministers like we do that are in strange sects that fight demons and belive in the end of electrics and sun like our current finance minister. Plus our eu commissioner is a shaman and practices walking on fire all the time. While I recognize religious freedom that we all have ensured by law I still think they are totally crazy. Tv is going crazy all the time now about the finance ministers sectist beliefs.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-37715202

All the best

Wow! You live in my country too?? :D

Nope, but probably lots of people from lots of countries are in a similar shoe :D.

Have we solved all of Earth's problems, before that? Damn, how much of a twisted priorities or a "to do" list, some people can actually have...

Seriously, though, NOTHING good ever comes out of Europe. Mars is lucky to NOT BE POLLUTED by anything of European Origins and all. Much rather a Chinese or a Russian vessel to arrive there.

Don't be so harsh.

Wouldn't you like your old buddy Tsipras to be sent to Mars? :P

I'll just leave this here again

What!? Sending a communist to the "Red Planet"? No, thanks, that would be a pretty bad idea... I 'd rather watch him hang or executed for treason to his place, for turning said place into an "other" place and for deception plus fraud towards foreigners... The idiot still thinks he calls the shots or is da badass mon or something ("we will change europe", "we will send Merkel home go back"). But besides him being an unparalleled delusional bastard all of his own unique league, he is also a common petty crook; recently they tried to cheat the chinese on a major investment business deal!

Aren't you Greek? If so, then I suppose you are proof to your own argument.

Last time i checked, we don't have space-wear... So argument invalid, next! Still, though, i have to agree almost fully with your statement, i won't deny that! Like you have to agree on russian space-wear being (far) better.

Aren't you the same guy who supposedly despises communism?

I hate modern impostors who are under the delusion of being communists, while robbing locals, destabilizing everything they touch and undoing anything still standing, while merrily becoming the laughing stock of the world all over. Mostly, in and around my place, which they damage and ruin constantly, by the day, as if they are struggling hard to finish it off. Not the real thing, which is very, very far away and never troubled me or mine in the slightest!

I like Asians and i like Russians. How they rule their territory is of no concern to me. My only concern is them stopping the warmongering stooges (to whom i am unfortunately allied with) who are sharpening their pikes to start new shit, in order to save their bubble of an economy and their petro-dollars.

So....you're not living in Asia or Russia because...?

Because this thread is about Europe failing to send that thing to mars. Enough derailment already. You will have plenty of posts to downvote anyway, so let's return to our initial discussion, shall we? A chinese or a russian vessel would have many more chances to successfully go there. Don't you agree? Or don't you agree?

I never said I was downvoting anything.
I'm just curious how you've come to the conclusion that Russia and China would be somehow more qualified to travel to Mars. What's wrong with anybody else being there?