Space Exploration

Are NASA's future missions and budget justified?

  • It's worth the time and expenditures

    Votes: 223 66.0%

  • Complete waste of money

    Votes: 41 12.1%

  • We need to explore, but not at the current cost

    Votes: 74 21.9%
  • Total voters
    338
#4,153
#4,153
LouderVol said:
Can you even get approved to add something to the ISS in that time? Granted I have no idea what that process is, but that seems extremely aggressive. Especially considering the logistical increase with more people up there.
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I would be surprised if they hit the 2024 date, but I’m perfectly OK with being wrong. I’m just glad to see more proposed projects in space that are actually being backed with private money.
 
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#4,155
twoffo said:
I would be surprised if they hit the 2024 date, but I’m perfectly OK with being wrong. I’m just glad to see more proposed projects in space that are actually being backed with private money.
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I am too. But I would rather it be good money spent, aka SpaceX type, rather than bad money spent, aka Boeing.
 
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#4,157
Absolutely worth it.

NASA found an asteroid out past Mars, that has some type of metal that's rare here. And its estimated to be worth:
3,500,000,000,000,000,000,000.00 USD.

Also, Neptune's atmosphere ( ocean) creates diamonds. Its a whole of them. A bigger planet than our own.
 
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#4,158
#4,158
If you remove the emotional arguments, it really comes down to this question. What is worth our money?

1. Medicare that keeps people alive from 80 to 90 years old but these people will never build, invent, or add anything tangible of value for humanity

or

2. Working on a method to get off this planet which is always at risk of destruction thus leading to the extinction of the human species

We spend far more on medicare/medicaid than we do on NASA.
 
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#4,159
volbound1700 said:
If you remove the emotional arguments, it really comes down to this question. What is worth our money?

1. Medicare that keeps people alive from 80 to 90 years old but these people will never build, invent, or add anything tangible of value for humanity

or

2. Working on a method to get off this planet which is always at risk of destruction thus leading to the extinction of the human species

We spend far more on medicare/medicaid than we do on NASA.
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Nobody knows how long they'll live, but what if we changed the equation from 85-90 to people that are 35 and up which one would you pick?
 
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#4,160
VolStrom said:
Nobody knows how long they'll live, but what if we changed the equation from 85-90 to people that are 35 and up which one would you pick?
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In the scheme of things, for humanity, probably still NASA. If you are looking at it from a survival of the species aspect, space exploration should trump probably everything.
 
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#4,163
LittleVol said:
Absolutely worth it.

NASA found an asteroid out past Mars, that has some type of metal that's rare here. And its estimated to be worth:
3,500,000,000,000,000,000,000.00 USD.

Also, Neptune's atmosphere ( ocean) creates diamonds. Its a whole of them. A bigger planet than our own.
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diamonds are worthless
 
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