Do you think that when NASA sends shuttles up...It is a waste of time and money????? well it is our TAX dollars paying for it....So what do you think???
2006-07-04 17:42:17 · 15 answers · asked by βεℓℓα ツ 4 in News & Events ➔ Current Events
No i am not picking one this matter....
I just want your opinion....
2006-07-05 05:59:18 · update #1
Government often takes the lead in development of new technology, leading to improvements for all of our lives. It takes vision, courage and sacrifice. Sometimes, it results in giant leaps forward.
2006-07-04 17:47:34 · answer #1 · answered by rockEsquirrel 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Space exploration is not a waste of time or money, but using the space shuttle to do it is. This is the equivalent of keeping a 25-year-old car running, and calling it research.
Instead of developing new technologies for space exploration, we're spending billions to make it so chunks don't fall off and cause damage at launch.
What's even more frustrating is that NASA is actually taking a technological step BACKWARDS in development of a new space vehicle. We're going back to the old rocket-and-crew-capsule days of the 1960s.
All this just a few years after a private company proved that a reuseable vehicle could be launched for a miniscule fraction of the space shuttle's present cost, by using new materials and all new scientific concepts. It's almost as if NASA thinks the "mean scientists" will go away if you just ignore them.
NASA administrators are more interested in keeping their burocratic money burning machine going than in advancing American technology.
2006-07-12 13:17:14 · answer #2 · answered by Privratnik 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes! I believe it is a waste of tax money. When people gripe and complain about the deficeit in this country and all you would
have to do is cut nasa and we would be fine! I don't know about
everyone else but I live here on earth and think that there are
alot of other things to explore down here that are closely related
to what we need in the here and now. I loved Star wars and Star
Trek but we are never going to leave the earth to live on the moon
or some space station. I don't believe in Global Warming either.
The earth is a big planet and there is plenty of room for all of us
and we've come along way with technology and will continue
to solve things as they evolve. So No, I would rather have my $
back!
2006-07-16 23:49:31 · answer #3 · answered by sally 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The only objection I have is that NASA was founded as a civilian, non-military organization and was quickly taken over by the military and Black Ops. So, everything NASA does and discovers is filtered through them before it is made public.
Smaller crafts for exploration could be designed but are not because of the need for "payload space".
So, Man has hopped to the moon several times and now is satisfied with spinning around the earth instead of exploring the vastness of our solar system and galaxy.
2006-07-14 22:09:48 · answer #4 · answered by Cinema Bill 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not only is it not a waste of money, it is probably the only thing actually worth spending money on.
If you do not believe this, then consider:
1) We have the ability to destroy ourselves, and the circle of people who actually have the ability to destroy us completely is growing daily. You may be afraid of Bush, but I prefer to be afraid of the thought processes of a guy who might wonder: if killing 100's of people in a suicide bombing brings me 100 virgins, what would 1,000,000 bring me? Follow the results. At least we might be able to keep this under control though, so not yet time to panic.
2) Do a quick search on "Yellowstone" and "Supervolcano". Read about what a supervolcano does. Read about what it did to the human population last time it erupted. Consider that geologists are sorta concerned about unstable bulges which have recently appears in the park. Try not to panic.
3) Do a quick search on dangerously large asteroids that passed us by just in the last few years. Consider how many of those were seen *after* they passed by unnoticed. Remember the Dinosaurs. Try really hard not to panic.
4) Global warming may be occuring, but that is lots better than the global cooling that is long overdue. Oh, and global warming may actually trigger golbal cooling. Oh yeah, we may have almost nothing to do with either, so it is not like we can actually make things better. Imagine living in your freezer; naked; without any food. Keep trying not to panic.
Once you start to read about the natural processes of our planet, you start to realize there are just a ton of way for the entire human race to "snuff it" overnight. We cannot stop any of these from happening. When they finally do happen, it's too late to do anything about it. The only chance we have is to have a backup somewhere.
This is one of the most important reasons for sending people into space; this is the dress rehearsel for sending people out, and not having them come back! We do not have a whole lot of time to get our act together; many of the major disasters are overdue and could happen at any time. We absolutely *must* have permanent, self-sufficient colonies, if only to survive; and, if only to "reboot" the Earth, not if, but when the utter calamity finally happens.
2006-07-17 05:14:52 · answer #5 · answered by Michael M 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No the shuttle is important for the space station and for the servicing of hubble. Its manned flights to the moon and mars that are a waste of money. Robots can do it faster, cheeper, safer and more efficiently.
They wanna send humanoids to mars so that some rich man's son can be the first to fart, f---, sh--, and play golf on mars. Its a waste of money because there is no proper magnetosphere to protect humanoids from solar winds and cosmic radiation. Mars' metalic core has frozen solid, it no longer generates a protective "force field" magnetosphere.
Third there has never been a sealed self sufficient, man made biodome on earth. If they can't do it on God's green earth there is no way on God's red mars they will be able to do it.
Men on Mars is a continuation of the dream of a former Nazi scientist named Werner Von Braun. Von Braun was one of the principle players at NASA and his dream was to send Men to mars. The dream lives on even though robots can do it faster, cheeper, better and most importantly safer.
2006-07-12 13:36:31 · answer #6 · answered by willberb 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Iam all for space exploration, "unmaned", there have been some real mind bogeling things done, but with humans in the program is a real waste of time, money . Sometimes I get the feeling man has trashed earth and now they want to go somewhere else and forget about here.
2006-07-12 23:38:14 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes its a waste of time and money.. Why are we so stuck on OLD technology??
And what makes even less sense is why can't the companies that make the parts DONATE them for a global cause..
Space should not be about a race.. It should be a global unity since what we find affects all.
2006-07-13 19:48:20 · answer #8 · answered by Fixitguy 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't really know because most of the objects they send into to space get hit by a meteor or something which means alot of money wasted. But to me they should be trying to figure out how to help Earth wiuth its many problems.
2006-07-05 00:48:32 · answer #9 · answered by angel_babii 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm kind of up in the air on this one... Pun intended.
On one hand, there's a lot good science and technology that comes out of the space program that eventually trickles down to help us all.
On the other hand, there are a lot of other good causes down on Earth that could use the money.
Tough call.
2006-07-05 00:50:00 · answer #10 · answered by Leadfoot 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋