I want to know how much $ is being spent to explore Mars, in future vision to move people there...? What is wrong with spending $ on investigating the wealth of life here, our mother planet? I'll bet that ocean creatures/plants also have medicinal qualities; gotta be that plants in rain forests do too. So, why do we spend so much $ for Mars? AND, though treaties exist that say we cannot polute anything in space, what is wrong with putting our regular and toxic wastes on the dark side of the moon? It does not revolve and there will never be life on it. Why don't people make an outcry for Mother Earth instead of imagining what they will do in outer space? I personally do not see that anything from space is realistically benefiting us, though if we really HAD EXTRA $, I don't mind space exploration!
2006-07-09 16:20:39 · 12 answers · asked by Louiegirl_Chicago 5 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
One at a time....sigh.
1) The moon DOES revolve - around the Earth.
2) The moon also rotates - at the same rate as it's rate of revolution around Earth, which generates the illusion of its not rotating since we only observe the same side from here on Earth. Try walking around a chair in the center of a room while looking ONLY in the same direction as the chair. You'll see all 4 walls behind it as you complete 1 "revolution" by walking all the way around it.
The only "dark side" of the moon is the side away from the sun - and every side is dark sometime during the course of a month. We just don't see the side facing away from Earth.
3) There has already been life on the moon - the 6 astronauts from the Apollo program from 1969 through 1972 - and will be again if we set up a base there. And if we don't, the Japanese AND the Chinese ARE interested.
4) Check the following web sites for "benefits" of space exploration:
http://techtran.msfc.nasa.gov/at_home.html
http://www.sti.nasa.gov/tto/spinoff.html
NASA's budget already is miniscule compared to domestic spending and the military, with a lot more benefits.
And YES - I'd LOVE to live on Mars. As long as we live on Earth, Humanity has all its eggs in one basket, so to speak. One good meteor stike and we're history - just ask the dinosaurs.
2006-07-22 15:52:57 · answer #1 · answered by Rockmeister B 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
No . . . I don't feel like entrusting my life to computers to that extent. Even if we were able to fly spaceships to Mars in the near future, the place still wouldn't be fit for human life on the surface (it's too cold even if by some miracle we find enough oxygen) so we'd have to live in computerized space stations that control our oxygen intake, gravity, waste disposal, etc. etc. Now you have probably gotten the idea about living on Mars from sci-fi novels, where all the machinery miraculously never has any problems or breaks down. Now consider living in a place like that with the tech we have today. Microsoft, Playstation, the space shuttles.
Seems like an accident waiting to happen, doesn't it?
I think I'll stay on Earth, thank you very much.
2006-07-09 23:31:24 · answer #2 · answered by Isis-sama 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's partly just the explorers in the Human kind. From the beginning of time, we've always wanted to explore the unknown, I think this is the biggest reason. People are curious, we want to know what's out there.
The 2nd reason is political. There are bragging rights for countries who can put men on the moon or sent probes to land on mars. Look at China, they're trying to show that they are modernized and techno-savvy by going to the moon.
2006-07-09 23:26:24 · answer #3 · answered by duffman071 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes... I want to move to Mars.... NASA is spending millions of dollar trying to get us there. We should be there by 2020.
I'm going to invest in some land there... maybe buy a house on the beach that over looks Earth.
2006-07-10 00:11:37 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
even if i am the 3rd richest human in the history, i will be broke to live at mars by now,
do you know the price of the oxigen and water there? considering the transportation fee
2006-07-23 21:53:01 · answer #5 · answered by Henry W 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
when u feel ur life on earth is a waste...then y do u want to live in mars...
2006-07-09 23:25:05 · answer #6 · answered by frost 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i sure love finding stupid questions,it lets me be a smart *** lol.so do u ever do research on questions like this or do u ask and expect people to just agree with ur question and how dumb it really is.
2006-07-09 23:29:21 · answer #7 · answered by chevyman502 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. It wil not happen and we should have taken care of our mother earth!
2006-07-09 23:30:47 · answer #8 · answered by swanmode 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
to far to hot and not da place humans are meant to live on
2006-07-23 08:09:51 · answer #9 · answered by John Y 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I hear the weather is terrible.
2006-07-19 18:18:55 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋