Shuttle - sky - no staaars
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Steve
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Rusty
A-HAHAHA!
mourningstar
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that's the one i like, too. obviously if we identify ourselves with the one on the right. otherwise... brrrr... what a horrible thought.
Sonnenritter
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I find it funny that funding is still being pumped into space research. It lets you know where government priorities are. I think I read that the new ship NASA (or if you want to use the term coined by George Carlin, Nassholes) is building costs around 16 billion dollars. That can feed a lot of people. I'm no philanthropist, but come on. Solve the current problems we have here before trying to emulate Star Trek. Hell, we still don't even know everything about our own planet, yet space research is given significantly greater funding than environmental research. Capitalist/Imperialist pricks wanting the deed to the universe can get bent.
It might be interesting and maybe even some vain douche wants to labeled the Columbus of space, but I do believe a family living in an abandoned vehicle with no food or heat is just a bit more important than a god damn rock that is uninhabitable by humans.
It might be interesting and maybe even some vain douche wants to labeled the Columbus of space, but I do believe a family living in an abandoned vehicle with no food or heat is just a bit more important than a god damn rock that is uninhabitable by humans.
mourningstar
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@sonnenritter: i disagree. of course hunger is a huge problem, and no one here says "who cares, let people die", but i don't think the solution is so simple as using that money originally destined to something else. it would be useful for one day, maybe, but the problem will live on. i don't have the solution to solve all those big problems (i wouldn't be here), but i don't think that's the way.
in the same way we should stop the scientific research whose immediate goal isn't saving human lives, and so on...? nah, we can't stop everything.
but it's a complex issue, that hardly could be covered here.
in the same way we should stop the scientific research whose immediate goal isn't saving human lives, and so on...? nah, we can't stop everything.
but it's a complex issue, that hardly could be covered here.
BasilisK
Good day, pusscake.
If we cancel the space program, we might as well spend the money on cheap booze and cheaper hookers, because we will have totally fucked ourselves, and doomed our race to destruction. What does everyone think they're doing up there? We just spend billions of dollars to send people up there to sit around and look out the window at all the pretty stars? This planet has a lot of problems, yes. But ignoring the bigger picture is the last thing we need to do. We can spend all of our resources taking care of all the problems down here, making sure everyone is taken care of, return the environment to a perfectly healthy state, etc etc. It doesn't change the fact that the Earth is still a time bomb, and the clock is ticking.
With the tragedy with the shuttle, all of the sudden everyone cares about this subject (which they probably never gave half a thought to before), so it's being knit-picked to death. That will change in time (if we keep the program going, that is). A lot of people will be changing their tune when we find a bacteria or a fungus or something under the crust of Mars or something that doesn't exist on this planet that creates a cure for cancer, or something of the like. Chances are everyone here already knows somebody taking a medication/whatever for a condition they have that was developed in space, because the proper conditions for the research cannot be found on Earth.
With the tragedy with the shuttle, all of the sudden everyone cares about this subject (which they probably never gave half a thought to before), so it's being knit-picked to death. That will change in time (if we keep the program going, that is). A lot of people will be changing their tune when we find a bacteria or a fungus or something under the crust of Mars or something that doesn't exist on this planet that creates a cure for cancer, or something of the like. Chances are everyone here already knows somebody taking a medication/whatever for a condition they have that was developed in space, because the proper conditions for the research cannot be found on Earth.
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