what's it matter if we can see stuff that far away if we can't get to it?
2007-05-10 02:48:31 · 12 answers · asked by nateclark07grad 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
Cause Curiosity made us come down from the trees. And curiosity proved to be a good survival strategy.
2007-05-10 02:53:06 · answer #1 · answered by Easy Peasy 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
By approaching light speed close enough, you can actually get anywhere in the universe in what seems like just a few years to you (the traveler). Of course if you came back to Earth it would be long gone, as billions of years would have gone by here.
Plus there may be ways to jump around in space like some theories have suggested. Who knows what we will discover in the future, but we will never learn if we don't at least try.
2007-05-10 10:17:02 · answer #2 · answered by fresh2 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not only are we curious, but when we see things so many billions of light years away, we are seeing things as they were billions of years ago, in a sense giving us a "glimpse into the past"
2007-05-10 09:55:32 · answer #3 · answered by Tim M 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Cos Curiosity is part of human nature. Also studying distant parts of the universe can tell us many things such as info about the big bang.
2007-05-10 11:39:52 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are people who believe in knowledge for the sake of knowledge itself. They need to know the hows and whys of things simply because they want to add to the scientific knowledge that others have compounded.
2007-05-10 10:17:50 · answer #5 · answered by charliecizarny 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
because if we understand how things work, we can create new technologies that will hep people now and in the future. if we didnt know how gravity actually worked from our freind einstien, we wouldnt be traveling in space much. and if we werent traveling in spce, we would never have discovered how to make certain medicines that can only be made in zero gravity. so ask those people who depend on those medicines to live, why it matters so much. i hope this helps!!!!
2007-05-10 09:54:19 · answer #6 · answered by Bones 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
That's just it. We ARE going to go there. It is only a matter of time. We will come up with the technology and it will be in the next 50 years. We need to know about where we will eventually be going.
2007-05-10 09:55:48 · answer #7 · answered by North_Star 3 · 0⤊ 4⤋
It does matter. We can still lie about landing on a star a billion light years away. Dummies believed landing on the moon c r a p...!!!
2007-05-10 10:02:09 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 4⤋
It's an academic exercise. Remember they're just looking at random and in the university environment, it's publish or perish. You gottaa write papers to kep your job.
2007-05-10 09:57:01 · answer #9 · answered by Gene 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
it's because of curiousity...
and the hope to find some thing useful...
We can find new things, useful to mankind, by seeing and understanding Nature and It's activities...
2007-05-10 10:03:53 · answer #10 · answered by dSolver 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋