why do we continue to explore space? please explain briefly with more points?

Answer 1

we're searching for the answers to some unanswered questions. where did we come from? why are we here? are we alone?

Answer 2

. After the end of world war II and the atomic bomb, Americans liked to think of themselves as being champions of science. It wasn't true of course. Largely the work on the bomb was done by a lot of foreigners.

Then those pesky Russians who we were being told to hate, had the temerity to set off their own bomb, and then orbit a sputnik, which circled the earth and beeped.

Americans, still fresh from basking in the glory of the bomb they didn't really build, were alarmed. How could the Russians put something in orbit. Of course if you asked what an orbit was, 99% would get it wrong.

Thus the space race was born and the race to the moon.
But it Of course it wasn't really a race, but making it sound like a race was good public relations.

We won the race which wasn't a race hands down. And we won it because we had kidnapped a bunch of foreigners, ex-nazi rocket scientists.. After several landings no one seemed interested any more, and the Apollo program was shut down.

Now heres the thing. Apollo left tens of thousands of unemployed technicians with nothing to do. Entire industries, geared to space exploration had nothing to do.
For congressmen it was expedient to maintain jobs in their districts. For owners of the industries it was important to purchase congressmen who would support space exploration. That way the industries could keep making money.
The american public for the most part couldn't care less about space exploration. Without the race that wasn't a race, and the missile gap that wasn't a gap, America again prides itself in being "number one in science" without really knowing any science.
people who wouldn't normally have jobs,have good wages, Industries that would have to compete in real markets, don't have to, academics who need data to write articles in journals that nobody reads, keep their jobs in academia, and everyone else in the country gets to look at pretty pictures, and imagine themselves better than foreigners who can't do space exploration.

Answer 3

We explore because it's human nature to wonder what lies beyond the familiar. If we can learn more about our planet, we can better predict storms or other weather-related phenomena, find and manage resources, grow more crops, etc. The process of exploring can cause former enemies or rivals to work together to accomplish the goal. And maybe, we can get to a point where we can have a colony on another planet, so that we don't have all of our eggs in one planetary basket.

Answer 4

Everyone seems to have good points, however I think that they missed one.

It is human nature to succeed,and to do this, most need lots of money. Take a field of science little is known about, and the demand for money is a bottomless pit. Scare a few decision makers (Congress) and you have your supply of funds. Show a few simple successes, and that supply will be endless, only interrupted for humans' main fascination -- WAR. After the war, spend as usual. In fact, tie space exploration with national defence, and the money will never dry up.

Answer 5

I think colonization of space would be a wise choice in order to continue the survival of the human species, considering the health of current planet.

Early man survived through many disasters due to the simple fact we spread out. If one island get submerged then that island's population goes away but everyone else tends to live on.

This analogy and idea could be applied to Earth and man living in space.

Answer 6

B,cause sky is the limit for those who want to fly high.Men the most wise creature on the earth wants to rule the stars. sattelites by knowin all about them. Men also wans to know the facts over old myths of gods who created the universe.He also wants to create another universe more comfortable ,more luxirious than what god has created.Knowing more and more about space is a greed of man, which can never fulfill till he reaches to the end. and there is no end to space.

Answer 7

Man has been exploring the planet Earth for tens of thousands of years, and it's not going to stop at space. It may seem technologically difficult to expand into space, but it's inevitable, regardless of what critics think.

Answer 8

Because man/woman has always wanted to explore new horizons. Without this innate wish to expand our horizons, we'd still be living in trees on the East African savanna.

Answer 9

guy is a curious animal. there is plenty available to be taught and we've the potential to realize this, to no longer attempt would be incorrect. a million) we in all possibility ARE on my own, realistically, as we are actually not likely to ever are available in touch with yet another clever civilization, yet SO WHAT? there remains plenty to do. 2) do no longer even evaluate the prospect persons "employing up the Earth". we ought to safeguard mom Earth, as we do not have a spare.

Answer 10

Because we have so many questions to be answered in this region. We hardly know about our own Milkyway and there are so many new planets to be found which can answer our quest to find other life forms. It will benifit us in a longer run.

Answer 11

We haven't explored Uranus