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5/13/2012 3:27:15 PM
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Space Exploration is a Waste of Money.
We have people starving in many countries, overpopulation, an energy crisis, cancer that needs curing, why are we blowing away billions for something that we have barely gained from?
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[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] Heisenburg [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] Technoxious [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] Heisenburg [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] snake kills you hmm. A new planet could cure Starvation...Check Overpopulation...Check Energy crisis...Check [/quote] Instead of negligible returns from spending trillions on space, we could put money into this directly.[/quote] And we are...but we're also investing in humanity's future via space exploration. Because without it, we don't have a future.[/quote] How so? We can have a perfectly good future on Earth.[/quote] False. Our sun is becomingly increasingly luminous, and in about a billion years or so, the Earth's surface will be too hot for permanent liquid water. And obviously long before that the Earth will become increasingly uninhabitable.
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[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] CYCLONES6 [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] CND AAA Beef [url=http://blog.lib.umn.edu/lecy0013/architecture/old-computer.jpg]This[/url][/quote] I actually find that extremely interesting. [quote]Scientists admit that the computer will require not yet invented technology to actually work, but 50 years from now scientific progress is expected to solve these problems.[/quote] Huh, I find that especially intriguing.[/quote][url=http://blog.modernmechanix.com/what-will-life-be-like-in-the-year-2008/]Check this out[/url] Some of the really cool stuff didn't happen, but a lot of other things did. Just not in the way those writers imagined. [Edited on 05.13.2012 10:03 PM PDT]
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[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] CND AAA Beef [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] Seggi31 [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] Technoxious Because without it, we don't have a future.[/quote] Why?[/quote] Overpopulation Pollution Dwindling resources and food supply War over the aforementioned dwindling resources and food supply[/quote] [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] Heisenburg Instead of negligible returns from spending trillions on space, we could put money into this directly.[/quote]
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[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] Heisenburg We have people starving in many countries, overpopulation, an energy crisis, cancer that needs curing, why are we blowing away billions for something that we have barely gained from?[/quote]Doesn't America hitch rides with Russia? Meaning we have cut back Space Exploration drastically?
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[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] Heisenburg [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] Flaming Wombat [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] Heisenburg [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] Flaming Wombat We can't stay here forever.[/quote] Says who?[/quote] Earth doesn't really have a limitless supply of minerals so unless we can figure a way to conserve it until the end of the human race, good luck.[/quote] Strict recycling methods and renewable materials can fix that problem.[/quote]Non-renewable resources would like to have a word with you. Recycling is also not that efficient. [Edited on 05.13.2012 9:59 PM PDT]
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[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] Flaming Wombat [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] Heisenburg [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] Flaming Wombat We can't stay here forever.[/quote] Says who?[/quote] Earth doesn't really have a limitless supply of minerals so unless we can figure a way to conserve it until the end of the human race, good luck.[/quote] Strict recycling methods and renewable materials can fix that problem.
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[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] Heisenburg [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] Flaming Wombat We can't stay here forever.[/quote] Says who?[/quote] Earth doesn't really have a limitless supply of minerals so unless we can figure a way to conserve it until the end of the human race, good luck.
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[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] Seggi31 [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] Technoxious Because without it, we don't have a future.[/quote] Why?[/quote] Overpopulation Pollution Dwindling resources and food supply War over the aforementioned dwindling resources and food supply
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[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] Flaming Wombat We can't stay here forever.[/quote] Says who?
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[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] CND AAA Beef [url=http://blog.lib.umn.edu/lecy0013/architecture/old-computer.jpg]This[/url][/quote] I actually find that extremely interesting. [quote]Scientists admit that the computer will require not yet invented technology to actually work, but 50 years from now scientific progress is expected to solve these problems.[/quote] Huh, I find that especially intriguing. [Edited on 05.13.2012 9:56 PM PDT]
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[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] Heisenburg [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] Technoxious [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] Heisenburg [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] snake kills you hmm. A new planet could cure Starvation...Check Overpopulation...Check Energy crisis...Check [/quote] Instead of negligible returns from spending trillions on space, we could put money into this directly.[/quote] And we are...but we're also investing in humanity's future via space exploration. Because without it, we don't have a future.[/quote] How so? We can have a perfectly good future on Earth.[/quote] We can't stay here forever.
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[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] Technoxious [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] Heisenburg [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] snake kills you hmm. A new planet could cure Starvation...Check Overpopulation...Check Energy crisis...Check [/quote] Instead of negligible returns from spending trillions on space, we could put money into this directly.[/quote] And we are...but we're also investing in humanity's future via space exploration. Because without it, we don't have a future.[/quote] How so? We can have a perfectly good future on Earth.
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[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] Technoxious Because without it, we don't have a future.[/quote] Why?
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[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] Heisenburg [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] snake kills you hmm. A new planet could cure Starvation...Check Overpopulation...Check Energy crisis...Check [/quote] Instead of negligible returns from spending trillions on space, we could put money into this directly.[/quote] And we are...but we're also investing in humanity's future via space exploration. Because without it, we don't have a future.
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Just an analogy: The computer took over a century to get from a simple programmable machine to the powerful devices sitting on our desks. Untold millions were spent to go from punch cards, vacuum tubes, and analog computing, to microprocessors, solid state memory, and computer networks. The people who created these early, massive computers, had no way of knowing that we would one day hold devices exponentially more powerful in the palm of our hands. [url=http://blog.lib.umn.edu/lecy0013/architecture/old-computer.jpg]This[/url] is what they thought a "Personal Computer" would look like in 2004. To the average person living in that time period, those old computers probably looked like a big money pit for bored intellectuals, money that could be spent elsewhere. Today, we can't imagine life without computers. They're in everything, from phones to MRI scanners. We depend on them every day. The point that I'm trying to make is that it's impossible to see what will result from the billions spent on space exploration. But if history is any guide, the results will probably change humanity forever.
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It'd be an unbelievably stupid move to even [i]think[/i] that space exploration is a bad decision.
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[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] Seggi31 [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] Avatar Korra Because space exlporation brings new technology. /thread[/quote] There are much less expensive ways to get non-stick frying pans.[/quote] Yep, we explore space in order to search for new ways to achieve non-stick frying pan. How'd you know?
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[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] Avatar Korra Because space exlporation brings new technology. /thread[/quote] There are much less expensive ways to get non-stick frying pans.
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Because space exlporation brings new technology. /thread
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[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] Heisenburg We have people starving in many countries, overpopulation, an energy crisis, cancer that needs curing, why are we blowing away billions for something that we have barely gained from?[/quote] hell yeah! my thoughts exactly
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[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] Seggi31 [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] snake kills you hmm. A new planet could cure Starvation...Check Overpopulation...Check Energy crisis...Check Cancer...Un-check, she's a real B!tch that cancer... Overpopulation and starvation are mostly because Africans and Indians reproduce like a herd of damn mice. Its rediculous. No offense if you live or from there but damn. Plus, more money is being spent in finding and using alternative energy than ever before, and we have so much oil and coal and -blam!- we just won't drill...[/quote] >implying it's feasible to colonise a planet[/quote] Just about to mention this.
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[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] snake kills you hmm. A new planet could cure Starvation...Check Overpopulation...Check Energy crisis...Check [/quote] Instead of negligible returns from spending trillions on space, we could put money into this directly.
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[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] snake kills you hmm. A new planet could cure Starvation...Check Overpopulation...Check Energy crisis...Check Cancer...Un-check, she's a real B!tch that cancer... Overpopulation and starvation are mostly because Africans and Indians reproduce like a herd of damn mice. Its rediculous. No offense if you live or from there but damn. Plus, more money is being spent in finding and using alternative energy than ever before, and we have so much oil and coal and -blam!- we just won't drill...[/quote] >implying it's feasible to colonise a planet
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[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] Ankrow Agreed OP. Until we have the technology to quickly travel to other worlds and set up colonies it isn't worth it.[/quote]
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[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] Heisenburg We have people starving in many countries, overpopulation, an energy crisis, cancer that needs curing, why are we blowing away billions for something that we have barely gained from?[/quote] hmm. A new planet could cure Starvation...Check Overpopulation...Check Energy crisis...Check Cancer...Un-check, she's a real B!tch that cancer... Overpopulation and starvation are mostly because Africans and Indians reproduce like a herd of damn mice. Its rediculous. No offense if you live or from there but damn. Plus, more money is being spent in finding and using alternative energy than ever before, and we have so much oil and coal and -blam!- we just won't drill...
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[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] Seggi31 [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] ChorrizoTapatio You know, your birth was a waste of money. Your parents didn't know what you were going to become, they didn't see any immediate results, and they could have spent their money on many other things thay could have benefited them but they took a risk. See where I'm going with this?[/quote] Yeah, to fetch the strawmen.[/quote] See this guy gets it.
