do you think spending much money on space explorations & studies such as the search for life in other planets?

Question

& galaxies is of importance to us?
defend your answer.

Answer 1

Space exploration and study is very important. Not only does it add to the general knowledge of the human race, it can protect us as well.

If we were not studying space, we would probably not know of the near earth orbits that many objects are on. One of these days one of these objects may approach on a collision course with earth. We will need all the knowledge we can possible gather from space to have a chance of stopping the impact.

Is the survival of the entire biosphere (this includes people) on earth important enough?

Answer 2

I think it is at least as important as spending money on art, music, sports and things like that. Despite what most people think, we do not spend more on space science than we do on those other activities. Because one NASA mission costs a billion dollars while a movie costs only $10, people get the idea that we spend way too much on space. But there are only one or two such NASA missions per year, while millions of people go to the movies, buy CDs and attend professional sporting events every year, so all those small payments add up to billions of dollars per year.

Answer 3

Well, that money will have to be spent eventually. No point pushing it on and on just because there's poverty. There will always be poverty, there will always be a rich-poor gap where dogs can be better fed then children.

For space exploration, its a continuous process. It has to start somehow, and we all know its a waste of cash except for national pride. Yet we simply have to get pass this initiation stage, someone has to go through this "redundant era". No point claiming that it will be the next generation if we are here doing nothing about it.

Think of the invention of laser. Be it useless at the initial stage, we never know what we might achieve if explore its uses...

Answer 4

Much of modern technology has come out of space exploration, such as communication satellites. This commercial spinnoffs are tremendous, and the more difficult the problems tackled, the more there will be.

Answer 5

Mankind has a built in desire to explore his environment. The universe is just as much our environment as as the city we live in, the country that we live in, the continent that we live on, the planet that we live on and so on. It is not possible to place limits on our desire to explore and discover. Just look at those who have been persecuted for exploring and trying to explain what they see, they did it anyway. If we try to impose limits on exploration, someone will find a way to do it in their backyard!
Then what do we do? We could take our most inteligent, inquiring and determined people and throw them in jail or take their money and property away for daring to do what comes naturally. That does not sound like a good idea.

If governments decided not to spens money on exploration and research into the universe, are we going to stop companies and individuals doing the same? Just look at what people are doing. We have individuals and companies with money deciding to design and launch space craft. We have individuals with modest telescopes forming them into a large network to do research. We have university students finding cheap and easy ways to get scientific packages into orbit using a mixture of balloons and rockets. This demonstrates a wide spread desire to research and explore. Trying to stop all this would be like burning all the books.

So much has come out of our exploration in the past that it does not make any sense to decide not to do it anymore. Who knows what we may discover that will be of benefit to us. Can we look back into history and say that any bit of research or exploration did nothing for us and should never have been started? I don't think so.

All exploration is important to us. Because we have no idea what benefits we may find and also because we just need to do it.

Answer 6

Even though space exploration is important and in our interests, they could probably go better first to spend more money on helping the poor and starving people here on our own planet.

Answer 7

It's Life vs Death.

Growth=Life, expansion, outward movement.
Stillness=Death, entropy

Exploration(any type) & studies(any type) are mostly of little value to us individually, personally. Generally individuals would prefer things like food, money, sex etc. But, to the whole human kind exploration and knowledge bring new resourses and/or new methods of production to mankind.

If you live in North America someone had to cross an ocean to find you & me place to live.

Answer 8

if we're the only ones in the universe it's a hell of a waste of space.