How can space help in saving lives?

Answer 1

We can migrate to space when a giant asteroid hit the earth at 50 miles per second.

Answer 2

One obvious answer would be weather satellites which can monitor storms from space much more effectively than we can on Earth. The quick buildup of Katrina into a storm of disastorous proportions is a good example. As bad as things were with the large number of people still on the coast, there would have been a lot more people still in New Orleans if the weather service hadn't picked up on Katrina building up into a Cat 5 storm so quickly. If you looked at the traffic during the evacuation of New Orleans, you could easily see that any delay in notification would have made evacuation pointless - people could be hit by Katrina while in their homes or while sitting on the expressway.

In fact, NOAA's weather satellites provide another life saving service. Ships and planes are equipped with emergency beacons that transmit a radio signal to satellites in emergencies. You have to wait around until you've been passed over at least twice by satellites able to receive the emergency signal, but rescuers can eventually pinpoint where the ship or plane was when they activated their emergency beacon. (By the way - inadvertant activation of emergency beacons on private planes in Alaska is enough of a problem that the government often at least threatens fines, even if they don't follow through for fear that users might permanently disable their emergency beacons).

Navigation satellites and GPS receivers, along with satellite phones would be another good example (the US has such an extensive network of cell phone towers that satellite phones are rare in the US - they're much more common in Asia, the Middle East, and Europe). A person lost in the wilderness could call for help and give the rescuers their exact location.

Answer 3

Space may not help in saving lives;

However space has a irresistible charm for astronomers and scientists and most of the humans.

Study of space may not help in saving lives, however it may help us to better understand the universe we live in.

From the ancient times man has always tried to understand the universe and been fascinated by the beauty of the innumerable stars .

Some where in the vast depths of space , there is always a ineffable charm that has always bewildered the human kind and hence man studies space.

Answer 4

I think that space research could help to save lives in three main ways:

1. Medicines and technologies that can only be developed in zero-gravity.

2. Technologies that could enable people to leave the Earth and colonise another planet - Mars perhaps - in the event of a major catastrophe such as a nuclear holocaust.

3. Technologies that could prevent a major catastrophe, for example deflecting an asteroid that would otherwise hit the Earth.

Answer 5

If there was more space between me and stupid people, it would save lives.

Answer 6

Didn't you see Superman IV? We can send all the nukes to the sun, and there will be peace on earth.

Answer 7

by puting space inbetween us we dont fight,saving lives

Answer 8

we should set up factories on the moon and send all the illegals there