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
#101
#101
PKT_VOL said:
It just isn't going to happen (colonization) without a different ship.

A visit could with the same ship, but it would take forever round trip which makes it unlikely.
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So design and build the different ship. Napoleon once said "You would make a ship sail against the wind and currents by lighting a bonfire under her decks? I pray you excuse me. I have no time to listen to such nonsense" to Robert Fulton.

Is there is no drive to build it, what's the catalyst to do so? Even for your asteroid theory would require a powerful engine to get to it in time to make a difference. And if the exploration of the solar system is a byproduct of that radical new design?
 
#102
#102
Danl said:
PFFFFFFFFFFTTT!!!!! Antibiotics? Not bad, I guess, but a distant second.

The greatest discovery ever was when, at a young age, I discovered that girls like sex as much as I did.
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That's not a discovery.

More like a revelation.
 
#103
#103
Grand Vol said:
So design and build the different ship. Napoleon once said "You would make a ship sail against the wind and currents by lighting a bonfire under her decks? I pray you excuse me. I have no time to listen to such nonsense" to Robert Fulton.

Is there is no drive to build it, what's the catalyst to do so? Even for your asteroid theory would require a powerful engine to get to it in time to make a difference. And if the exploration of the solar system is a byproduct of that radical new design?
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Like I referenced in an earlier post, I believe the new "radically" designed ship is already built. Just a matter of national security.
 
#104
#104
Space exploration (with a mission) is money well spent. We (as a country)should open it up to more private industry, challenge and support missions to Mars, the Moon and comets. Industry can do it cheaper and quicker than NASA.
 
#105
#105
PKT_VOL said:
How serious is this post? lol
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I was watching the Science channel this past weekend & they hinted at the fact that the USA of having captured space aliens & kept at Area 51 to gain the knowledge on space flight. A lot of crazy technology has come out of Area 51 over the last 60 something years.
 
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#106
#106
W.TN.Orange Blood said:
I was watching the Science channel this past weekend & they hinted at the fact that the USA of having captured space aliens & kept at Area 51 to gain the knowledge on space flight. A lot of crazy technology has come out of Area 51 over the last 60 something years.
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The truly scary thing is that a lot of new technology hasn't come from Area 51. Stealth technology was developed on the mid-70's. That about all that's been released. Think about that for a moment.

Anyways, if we did capture aliens, they would have invaded/showed themselves to get their buddies back. Unless they were like the early Aussies who were British prisoners.
 
#108
#108
PKT_VOL said:
The truly scary thing is that a lot of new technology hasn't come from Area 51. Stealth technology was developed on the mid-70's. That about all that's been released. Think about that for a moment.

Anyways, if we did capture aliens, they would have invaded/showed themselves to get their buddies back. Unless they were like the early Aussies who were British prisoners.
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I don't think the Gov't would tell us anything(I think they would be scared of the possible effects on the very fabric of society). The only way we would learn anything about Aliens would be if they landed in full view of the public as a whole.
 
#109
#109
McDad said:
You think aliens have SEAL teams?
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It's all crazy stuff to believe in to begin with. There's been reports of flying saucers by people of different kinds of professions (doctors, lawyers, policemen, military personnel) all over the world but the reports are suppressed so as not to alarm the citizens so they don't have that panic out in the streets & pulling one's hair out of going insane out of fear of a space alien invasion.
 
#111
#111
PKT_VOL said:
1) Wasted away via over prescription. Now we have superbugs all over the place that we can't kill.

2) Those other concerns don't matter if we miss an incoming comet/asteroid.
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1) that's why we need to be putting a lot more money into research for finding drugs to kill these superbugs.

2) we have the technology to see asteroids coming from a very long distance. We can also trace their trajectory to a degree.

We are much, much more likely to be wiped out by disease than a comet/asteroid.

What concern is an asteroid/comet if we get nearly wiped out by a disease?
 
#112
#112
BigOrangeTrain said:
1) that's why we need to be putting a lot more money into research for finding drugs to kill these superbugs.

2) we have the technology to see asteroids coming from a very long distance. We can also trace their trajectory to a degree.

We are much, much more likely to be wiped out by disease than a comet/asteroid.

What concern is an asteroid/comet if we get nearly wiped out by a disease?
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Haven't followed this entire thread so maybe I'm missing the point but surely you see the circle logic here
 
#116
#116
Dave1967 said:
I don't think the Gov't would tell us anything(I think they would be scared of the possible effects on the very fabric of society). The only way we would learn anything about Aliens would be if they landed in full view of the public as a whole.
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Of course they wouldn't. It doesn't make it anymore believable though.
 
#117
#117
BigOrangeTrain said:
1) that's why we need to be putting a lot more money into research for finding drugs to kill these superbugs.
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More than likely, too late. And I don't think that is necessarily a bad thing.

BigOrangeTrain said:
2) we have the technology to see asteroids coming from a very long distance. We can also trace their trajectory to a degree.

We are much, much more likely to be wiped out by disease than a comet/asteroid.

What concern is an asteroid/comet if we get nearly wiped out by a disease?
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Our detection system is inadequate. Currently, if we see one "from a very long distance away", we are very lucky.

Disagree with the disease vs asteroid scenario. The diversity of humans and quarantine efforts would corner the disease. A comet or asteroid would be devastating.
 
#119
#119
I think space exploration is important but we need to worry about problems on our own planet first. There are a thousand deadly and/or debilitating diseases that should be the bigger priority. Mental disorders aren't fully understood or adequately treated. And everybody on volnation is more likely to die of cancer than an asteroid.

The funding for space programs would be better spent in other areas for problems that are more within our grasp.
 
#120
#120
I'm pleasantly surprised there aren't more people here advocating the abolition of NASA. I mean, why do all that science when Russia and China can do it for us? I'm sure they'll share their discoveries...
 
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