Why do we waste money on space exploration?

Question

We vainly search for life on Mars, while life on Earth disintegrates. We shouldn't waste a single dime on this, until we can feed, clothe, house, and educate every human on earth; and keep them from killing each other. Why is this?

I said 'exploration' not 'experimentation'

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Answer 1

We have control of only 300 million what about the 6 billion.

Answer 2

That's the problem.

RIGHT NOW if we did what YOU wanted YOU (and everyone else) would be living on 3 $1 Banquet TV dinners each day.

THAT is our resource ability.

In 50 years we expect to see a 50-75% rise in the populaton.

By 2100 we expect there to be between 12 and 20 Billion People in the world. AND most of the farm land would have been turned into parking lots.

By 2400, BARING war or plaugue. You know, AIR BORN AIDS that wipes out 2/3 the Earth. BARING THAT

By 2400 we reach the point where NO ONE can own a private house. We all live in sky scraper and subeteraian alabaster cities with hydroponic gardens.

By 2400 there may not be enough fresh air and water to support 300 billion people

So, we NEED to Colonize the Moon and Mars as a STOP GAP MEASURE

But if we can't break the Light Barrier and go to other stars, our civilizations time will run out when we run out of moons and rocks to build on.

What does one do when the population of the Solar System is 10 trillion

Now, benefits of going into space IS figuring out how to MAKE water and AIR out of inorgnic materials.

That is a MANDITORY goal.

Without that, we are doomed as we then have to ship Water and Air from the Earth To the Moon or Mars.

An alternative is to create a BIOSPHERE, something man has not done yet.

That means a moat with plankton and algae, forrests, something to generate water vapor, something to soak out the carbon dioxide and separate it back into O2 and solid carbon.

But, there is a point where the EARTH can no longer support ONE MORE PERSON and at that point in time we will either face WARS designed to RID the planet of excess people, WARS over food supplies, WARS over resources.

The ALTERNATIVE is to return to an Aquarian society as a whole.

YOU ready to wak up at sunrise, plow a field all day long, wash your clothes in a lake, take cold showers and work til sundown making your own food and food to trade with others.

That's an agrarian society.

That's the life of a FARMER.

OIL runs out in the year 2300. After that without a new energy source we go back to the horse and oxen.

Or YOU hold the plow and your Dad and Brothers pull it.

Answer 3

First, let me say that the reason to do space exploration is the positive inspiring effect it has. I will say more about this at the end of my rather long answer.

Space exploration does not consume as much money as most people think. Many other activities, such as sports, music, theater, and so on, consume much more money than space. One space mission costs hundreds of millions of dollars, but since there are very few space missions, it isn't' all that much in total. Compare that to a hundred million spent on making one movie. There are way more movies made each year that there are space missions launched. One professional football game may cost less than 100 million (except for the super bowl), but there are WAY more football games than space missions.

Life on Earth is NOT disintegrating! The news media love to tell bad stories, but the fact is that life is THRIVING on Earth right now. There are WAY more people living WAY better lives right now than at any time EVER before. Are you really aware how bad people had it in the past? The black death killed 1/3 of all the people in Europe! Compared to that cancer, heart disease and AIDS are NOTHING! True, wild animals have it bad now, but that is because the human population is thriving.

We can feed, clothe, house and educate all the people in the world, but we will never EVER be able to keep people from killing each other. You just cannot control the behavior of other people! All attempts to control people have resulted in mass murder, because people simply refuse to be controlled. People in Africa are starving and have no housing because of the killing. It is not money wasted on space that is taking away their quality of life, it is money wasted on fighting that is. Not only money wasted on fighting, but the actual destruction of resources that results from the fighting.

Now back to my point about inspiring people. What we need is an activity other than war that can engage the people in a big way. I think space exploration is one such activity. Sports, art and music are others. Space exploration is an activity with a history of getting people to work and cooperate instead of killing each other. The Soviet Union and the U.S. cooperated on space flight, for example on the Apollo-Soyuz test project, when they were on the verge of war in all other respects.

Answer 4

Work on the "stop killing each other" part first.

We are spending $1,288 billion on the military.
We spend $9 billion on civilian space exploration.

And many people (including me) consider money spent on space exploration to be worth every penny. This is what we're *supposed* to be doing! This is why humans aren't just monkeys with sticks!

Also: "It was NASA research, along with the agency's collaboration with other federal research programs, that are directly responsible for providing the evidence that scientists have been able to bring to the foreground to prove human impact on global climate change." (Second source, below.)

And there is so much technology that has been discovered throught the efforts to explore space.

Answer 5

The space program, in itself, is probably the least expensive gorvernment progrm there is. It drives the innovation needed to solve many of the problems of the people. Designing the space station to provide shelter in the harsh environment, has resulted in the development of building materials that are super insulators and in structural designs that are super strong and light weight.Theh problem of providing food for astronauts in a long term closed environment has brought advances in crop productions.
There are many research projects that may be able to cure many illnesses tnat can only be done in microgravity environments.
The problem of war is usually the result of unrestricted population growth, limited resources, and people that seek to gain authority by refusing to share.

Answer 6

Think about how critical space operations are to our knowledge about the environment, global warming, and climate change-or did you even bother to find out HOW we've learned about that?

Think about howmany tens of thousands of lives are saved every year by weather satellites and medical technology that are the direct result of the space program--or did you ever bother to find out about that?

And what about the tens--or hundreds--of thousands of people who die every year for lack of medicines we know about but that we don't have because they depend on space manufacturing we don't have because hypocrites pretend they want to cut funding for space to "help people." Did you ever bother to find out about that?

You should learn something about the subject before you show how little youknow-especially since that computer you are using wouldn't exist without the knowledge gained by "wasting money" on space research.

Answer 7

Lazy people who won't feed themselves deserve to die. Space exploration is the next obvious frontier. Letting technology die so that we can feed those who are weakening the human race is just plain creeping socialism. Let nature take its course. The strong will survive. Welfare programs are inhibiting evolution.

Answer 8

We don't send a lot of food and clothes into space.

Answer 9

I think both are valuable: saving lives is one part, enriching the quality of life is another: we could afford both.

Answer 10

It's for the very same reason u wasted your 5 points just now.
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