What is higher priority?

Question

A) manned mission to Mars
B) placing a telescope on the moon to discover, catalog and track near earth objects withouth atmospheric interference?

Trickster: you won't have to worry about poverty, genocide, etc, if we are extinct!

Look at the bigger picture.

It is to the extent we prevent extinction by asteroid impact that we can then worry about more terrestrial issues.

Avio: so why are astronomers clamoring for a telescope outside the atmosphere (apparently Hubble isn't good enough?) for asteroid detection? i'm not criticizing your answer, i just wonder why those educated people would want something we don't need

Answer 1

B

Answer 2

What Eri says is true. Maybe a couple more good elections will make a difference.

The answer is Neither A or B.

We are cataloging near-earth objects pretty effectively right now, actually, and it won't do us a bit of good. The thing most likely to "get" us will be some kind of dark object that we don't see coming at all.

I would add "C" which is "Find someone to love, and get with it."

Answer 3

Almost B;

But the telescope should be in orbital space, not on the lunar surface.

Answer 4

B. And to the guy above me - if NASA's budget is cut, the money will go to the war effort. Not to helping people. Our gov't doesn't like people.

Answer 5

taking care of people on earth to reduce war and poverty genocide and disease

Answer 6

IT WOULD BE NICE TO KNOW IF WE WERE GOING TO BE WIPED OUT NEXT WEEK. BUT, WHAT DO WE DO ABOUT IT. BESIDES THE ATMOSPHERE OF MARS IS VERY THIN.

Answer 7

B.