Add in the fact it's an 8 month flight with rocket technology, you'd need multiple ships to carry fuel, food, materials and avoid cabin fever.

I always am fascinated how humans cannot make Earth work, yet we talk about spending trillions of dollars the US doesn't have on a ridiculous plan that would make the submersible incident look like a family picnic in a nice park on a sunny, summer afternoon.

> ++ From the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh, it disgusted me. I craved the strength and certainty of steel. I aspired to the purity of the Blessed Machine.

> Your kind cling to your flesh, as if it will not decay and fail you. One day the crude biomass that you call a temple will wither, and you will beg my kind to save you.

> But I am already saved, for the Machine is immortal… ...even in death I serve the Omnissiah. ++