Life on Mars? Funds to Find Answer Fade - "The Pipeline is being shut off, and that's not what anyon
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[QUOTE=Parakon;35147361]You could totally still explore earth on a ship, and it'd be way cooler nowadays, show up some place with women and booze instead of rocks and resources.[/QUOTE]
Nah it just lacks the part where you shoot the natives and claim the land as your own.
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You say 17.7 billion is wasted by doing scientific research on other planets? What about the $1 trillion+ that the US spends on basically developing and researching new ways to kill people rather than help people or researching ways to sustain our race for longer?[/QUOTE]
Doesn't matter where the money comes from but yes, scientific research on rocks isn't going to solve that either.
Funding cuts is hurting us, and the leader of space exploration is currently the Russian Federation. We used to be the top when it came to space, but now we're sinking to the bottom. We don't even have spaceships anymore capable of sending people to / from the international space station we pay the Russians to send us up there, and that is total bullshit. If they made NASA get there ass back in line, and made it a Government Agency giving all the funding it needs then we will finally reach our goals that we wish to achieve.
I feel I should post this here:
[url="http://youtu.be/CbIZU8cQWXc"]Linky[/url] (I'm a bit of a lurker to the point I don't even know how to embed youtube vids here)
It's been causing a considerable reaction over at the Kerbal forums. In fact, one of the more literate users has created a petition on that White House petition website to revitalise NASA. Sign if you wish. Wish I could.
[url="https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/petitions/!/petition/stop-butchering-nasa-under-false-pretense-cost-one-penny-tax-dollar-nasa-will-revive-americas-dreams/kF6LBKDH#thank-you=p"]Linky[/url]
Eventually we'll all agree, some day we won't worry about religion or politics.
We'd be peaceful and smart as shit, but that time is a couple million years away.
It still makes me happy knowing it'll probably happen.
We haven't actually fully explored the earth yet. It's far less costly to explore the sea and the success rate in discoveries and such is far better than space.
I remember reading an article in Wired that said focusing so much on space and so little on the ocean is a waste of time and resources.
Thankfully, we're bordering on having the ability to live indefinitely, so we'll probably live to see the exploration of space.
Trying to find some sort of life in the reaches and scratches of Mars' surface with a robot doesn't really seem worth it to me either.
Science must be done on the widest range of things possible so that there's a better chance of a breakthrough in some field.
Science would be pretty shit if they only handpicked subjects that are most likely to yield the most data rather than the most useful data.
[QUOTE=The Baconator;35150391]We haven't actually fully explored the earth yet. It's far less costly to explore the sea and the success rate in discoveries and such is far better than space.
I remember reading an article in Wired that said focusing so much on space and so little on the ocean is a waste of time and resources.[/QUOTE]
So you'd rather doom ocean life because if scientific exploration allows findings of vast quantities of resources the oceans floor will be mined, and the fragile lives of the Whales who need quiet waters to communicate, or the coral reefs that need low Co2 environmental. I love the ocean but with the current trend of resource mining the oceans are doomed if the sea is made more accessible, I would see asteroids in space as a better mining candidate as well as exploration.
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[QUOTE=Bat-shit;35150571]Trying to find some sort of life in the reaches and scratches of Mars' surface with a robot doesn't really seem worth it to me either.[/QUOTE]
Why it would answer one of the most important questions out there, it would prove that life is out there for real, maybe Mars sent life to the Earth through Transpermia, or maybe a asteriod system deposited life there at the same time as Earth, if microbes could survive we could terraform Mars easier, the possibilities are endless and amazing.
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[QUOTE=Daemon;35149226]I would rather focus on our circumstance here on earth instead of blasting 17.7 billion worth of money into space because that's what we are doing. We are wasting government resources measuring a fart on another planet that has nothing to do with our situation here, how we can function and knowing what the solutions are.[/QUOTE]
.5 % of the GDP and that brought us rocket technology, Space stations, moon landings, reconisis of alien worlds, eyes into the deep universe, and a better understanding of our place in life.
[QUOTE=Disgruntled;35147396]It's probably for the best that this race won't reach out into space. We don't fucking deserve this vast universe, the way we fuck everything up.[/QUOTE]
Who the fuck are you to decide?
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