Boris Johnson writes in the Telegraph today about the moon landings and the prospects of going to Mars.
""The whole thing was so touch and go that it simply wouldn't be allowed today. The insurers wouldn't go near it. The risk assessments would be fatal to any such venture. The rockets would remain on the launch pad, choked and smothered by the lianas of health and safety. The tragedy of our age is that the lawyer-ridden western world is 100 times more phobic and more paranoid than the generation that flew to the Moon.""
The full article is here:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/borisjohnson/5865346/We-are-now-so-spineless-I-will-never-see-a-man-walk-on-Mars.html
He does not think that we will land on and explore Mars, thanks to out lawyer dominated safety first society.
It an interesting article and I fear he is right. What do you think?