Why does the US spend so much on space exploration? We'll never get there and who cares? How does what we learn really affect us or even the planet (considering the $$ spent)? We can spend the money on something better, Americans?
Please spend our money on something else!!
2006-08-16 17:33:41 · 13 answers · asked by mxbrown 3 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
You're an ignorant fool. Many of the things that we use here on EARTH were discovered and made for space exploration. Space exploration is also our future. Do your homework before you start spouting off poor assumptions.
2006-08-16 18:43:19 · answer #1 · answered by Apple Pie 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Well maybe you might want to consider this, if it wasn't for space travel and exploration, satellites would be very hard to get into space, i don't think you can just stand around and throw them up there and if you could well i would be worried. if it wasn't for satellites global communication and television would be a lot different but most people don't think about things like that. Space exploration is very necessary not just for global communication reasons but for the reason that with out communication there would be more war than there is today, and most country's would end up closing there borders to anyone and neighbouring countries would be at each others throats.
2006-08-16 19:55:52 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Aside from all the "someday we'll need to colonize another planet" stuff, there are other legitimate reasons for exploring space.
For example, travelling to the moon taught us how the moon was created. This sort of information can tell give us clues as to how the Earth was created as well. That's pretty important, don't you think? There's a multitude of other things that we can learn from space exploration.
Besides, it's cool.
2006-08-16 18:45:32 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
On the very short opportunistic term,
It helps us launch (tv and weather) satellites.
It helps us evaluate the risk of potential collisions with foreign objects.
It helps us place satellites for warfare purposes (targeting and spying).
It helps us show that we are technologically superior... yes I hate this one but I'm trying to be neutral for this particular question.
It allows us to do all kinds of tests that help us design future technological innovations.
On the medium term,
It may help us understand if there ever was life elsewhere, and potentially offer answers related to disease and degeneration.
To some point, we may even care about science for the sake of understanding the place we live in, but that's probably not why the typical government keeps funding it.
On the very long term,
It helps us figure out if there is a way out of this planet should we really mess up (or should things get messed up for us by some extreme event).
2006-08-16 17:58:43 · answer #4 · answered by Ragazza 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I just happen to like celestial mechanics. I wish that I had a spaceship (and lots of free fuel) so that I could practice flying it around the solar system. I'd take a lot of books with me to read on the long trip. Doing the math to figure the delta vee vectors is the fun part. And the excitement that comes with knowing that I might die, lost in interplanetary space, if I screw up.
2006-08-16 18:39:42 · answer #5 · answered by David S 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
did you know some of the medications taken are created and made possible by NASA. also the fossil fuels on this planet are not going to last forever. if we could find a cure for cancer by joining 2 elements that will not join together here on earth make it all worth it? if thats not a good reason think about this. if you had a choice between death to you or a family member or take a medicine manufactured in space for a cure. what would you do? i know i would choose the medicine.
2006-08-16 17:59:29 · answer #6 · answered by ? 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't think your statements are correct. I personally believe that NASA is doing a great job by spending money on space explorations .I think you don't have a good interet in space and by the way, Why Do we then look for fossils that were dead billions of years ago???? What is the benefit of it???? It is the same thing NASA is doing. Understood???
2006-08-16 22:31:25 · answer #7 · answered by Astronomy Freak 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Obviously you've already formed an opinion which probably can't be influenced by counter arguments. Anyway, take a look at this website for benefits that have already come from spaceflight and its technology ==>http://www.thespaceplace.com/nasa/spinoffs.html
Think about this, too -- Earth's resources are not infinite. We WILL exhaust all of them. So, where do we find other resources? That's right...in space!
2006-08-16 17:53:32 · answer #8 · answered by Chug-a-Lug 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Hi there....
Just think about the past..when dino's were ruling the earth... and then some meteor striked, produced a huge blanket of dust around earth and blocked the sunlight from earth... the result?? the dino's are extinct..
Now think in our scenerio, if we know in advance that some natural astronomical calamity is on the way to hit our planet...won't we do somethin to prevent it...
and to prevent it...we need knowledge... for that... some $$ are required to be spent...
2006-08-16 17:55:02 · answer #9 · answered by Chiya 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Like what? a war that everyone hates?...please..i'd rather have my tax paid money going to the exploration of space than the military.
2006-08-16 18:01:19 · answer #10 · answered by Killer 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋