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Suggested Daily Topic
The daily topic for today is:
Should we spend billions on exploring space?
Good or Bad? Is the knowledge we gain worth the money we spend? What are your thoughts?
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The scientific returns have been enormous. I favor continuing robotic missions as they are most cost-effective. Manned missions require a lot of overhead for life support. A manned mission to an asteroid or Mars requires shielding from radiation which does not appear to be anywhere close to being ready for deployment.
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Exploration of space could lead to exciting technological advancements that could help create a better, perhaps more sustainable world for all of us. I say YES!
Exploring space might be the only chance for our species. We are quickly ruining our planet, we need a new one to ruin next!
Why bother spending all this money exploring space and finding out there was water on Mars at some point in the last few thousand years (we have water in Earth) when these same great minds could be applied to finding better ways to power humanity's insatiable desire for energy, to feeding the starving millions around the globe, and generally making life down here better before looking up into the heavens. It seems the authoritative powers have their heads way, way up in the clouds.
The needs of humanity should always come first. While there are people on Earth who need help, they should be helped, rather than seeing money spent on sending robots onto other planets. Humanity is the number one priority; keeping the human race alive is a necessity. Alternatively, space exploration is a desire. If we put our desires before our needs, then everyone loses out on a better standard of living.
Also, why take so much time and money to learn about Mars or any other planet, when we know so little about our own.
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I understand what you mean but well, when a meteor hits earth all live here would probably die. That's why it's good to start learning about other planets so we can live on them as well. We should rather spend no money on militaire and put that into making the live on earth better and exploring space / finding new planets to live on. I know that it probably won't work but yeah.
NASA has stated we(humans) can't leave low Earth orbit, due to the van Allen radiation belt. Which means, to me at least, if we can't do it now, we've NEVER been able to. Especially back in the 60s and70s. So that smells like a lot of lying already. I don't even know if we as a species have any real clue as to what's above us. I believe however it is off limits to us for whatever reason our Creator has deemed. I believe if we're going to waste money exploring unknown areas, we should start with our oceans. However I believe the only justifiable reason for spending that kind of money is if it is being done to actually help our wonderful people here on this lovely planet. We're destroying this place, leaving people to starve and freeze in the streets, and so many other atrocities, and so many people WORSHIP nasa and the other space agencies. NASA alone gets 19 BILLION!!! dollars a year. Imagine if they took just a one year break.
HOW MANY PEOPLE COULD WE FEED WITH 19 BILLION DOLLARS? HOW MANY FRESH WATER WELLS COULD BE DUG? HOW MANY LIFES COULD BE SAVED?!?!
I get to thinking about this and I get frustrated. We've made it this far in our civilization without attempting to go into space, and all the while, we've been screwing off everything here. Now, we finally have technology to either fix our preexisting issues that we our selves have created, or go "play" Startrek. And because of the indoctrination in the schools and the brainwashing of our adult population through media and politics, we choose Startrek.😔
If you want to actually learn how they solved the issue of traveling through the Van Allen belts you could read this: https://www.forbes.com/sites/jillianscudder/2017/06/16/astroquizzical-van-allen-belts-barrier-spaceflight/#79443bb36f8d
The difficulty of the belts is the radiation given to the astronauts traveling through, so they aimed well to minimize the damage. They only received minor radiation.
If you want to learn some useful innovations created through NASA research there are countless pages on the subject, such as this one: https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/infographics/infographic.view.php?id=11358
There is way more money spend on militaire other than space, I think we should fix that first. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_budget_of_the_United_States
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personally we should fix the problems on the planet, before heading to space.
That is a very good question. But lets talk about us ever been on the moon, I think not.
Agreed.
I would say it should be a percentage, not a hard number. Starving people should come first.
in my opinion, instead of spending a lot of money on less useful things, it's better to donate to an orphanage.
congrats to the winners
I do not think that exploring is bad, what I think is wrong is that they spend billions of dollars in space experiments and damage and pollute the waters of our planet, this is our home and I think we should take care of it more since it is the only planet suitable for human beings we will take care of it. There are many people going hungry and no one cares, what kind of humans are we?
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Yes we should spend billions even trillions of dollars exploring space, the resources out there are worth it and I would put the market cap of a company that manages to create some sort of mining colony in another planet up in the trillion dollars space! Even better, finding a new planet for human kind to live in is invaluable.
hello this is my opinion
Should we spend billions on exploring space?
Already nations, especially developed nations, have made a large investment of their public budgets, aimed at outer space research, from there we can see how they send different teams as technicians, for space exploration. As to whether the question is directed to personal spending, it is always interesting to have the opportunity to know and have new scientific references, this investment can only be made by those who have the economic capacity to do so. But I believe that in each of the countries, developed or not, it is necessary to look at the people who need food, clothing, housing, education, transport and respect for human dignity, and to make major investments in them, since in my opinion it is not worth making major investments in space exploration, if there are people in the world dying of hunger.
Good or bad?
This will depend on the interest of governments and how much social investment is being lost, to invest in space exploration...
Is the knowledge we gain worth the money we spend?
If this knowledge first responds to your concerns and is beneficial to humanity, the money invested in it will be very well spent.
What are your thoughts?
As you can see from the above answers, I agree with this investment, provided that the priorities of human attention, the enjoyment of all rights for all and the pursuit of positive happiness are not neglected, and that this acquired knowledge is used to improve man's life.
Yes, we might soon need back up for our existence
yes, better spend it in space than in war
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Hello, I agree with having a good money to continue doing research in space, thanks to this we have been able to clear many doubts that humanity had, and the clearing of questions is always important.
As to whether it is good or not, it will all depend on the interest that human beings have in continuing to dispel doubts.
I would particularly like to have the opportunity to explore space, and to see for myself what it is like and what may surprise me.
Bunny Bunny Puncher Puncher, thanks for the prize!!!!!! I definitely think we should spend billions of dollars (if available) to explore and seek water and atmosphere ins space. I think that the new billionaires like Musk (maybe he wont be a billionaire for long....oops!) should push the way into looking for faster ways to travel.
For me mars would be just a small step to achieve, is the technology that would come from that exploration that is worth the billions.
I would gladly go to Mars, even if it was a big risk.
I believe that the only way to big progress is to achieve and overachieve impossible boundaries.
Anyway, thanks again Bunny Bunny Puncher Puncher @bunnypuncher !!!
If they want a Martian come for my wife, I'll leave them for free :D
You can not become rich just by relying on one stream of income. When you decide to become rich, you should be able to open opportunities and opportunities that can give you additional income. You never know not when one stream of your income will recede slowly?
Do not Be Enslaved By Your Own Money
Those are the real sides you need to reflect on money. You can not turn a blind eye to this reality. Allowing yourself to be overwhelmed with money is like giving your life to uncertainty. Money is not a living thing but its power to control humans is not small. Make sure that you are not enslaved by anyone but yourself. You have the right to make choices and make your own destiny.
This world presents a challenge for everyone who wants to survive to work and earn money so that with the money they can buy what is needed and desired in order to support his life. Competition in the world of work is not easy. Not infrequently of us feel difficulty even frustrated in working because of the demands of work and high rivals. Then after receiving a reward for our work, what do we do? We often spend a lot of money on our needs and desires. Is it a small business to raise money by spending less wisely.
It's for crazy people. Strange people. The rebels. Troublemaker. Stack round in a square hole. People who see things differently. They do not like the rules. And they do not respect the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can not do is ignore them. Because they changed things. They push mankind forward. And while some may see them as crazy people, we see them as geniuses. Because people who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world are the ones who really do it.
I think that it would be very interesting to continue exploring space because initially we would know more about it, and we would also be certain that life on another planet is possible, since there are some theories that contradict each other on this point, with respect to the money that has been used for these studies I would consider it an investment because many questions have been clarified in this regard, so I firmly believe that it is necessary to continue research because in the future it can be of great help to the human race.
I totally agree with what yhe petson above me said. Different people have different reasons for the “detest” of space exploration..
ON the FRINGE there are those who think it is all faked anyway, in studios, and that money is just wasted
ON the other FRINGE there are those who think ANY money spent on space should be spent on starving children, even though in the long run unless we do spend money on space to the point we can protect ourselves from a rogue planet killing asteroid impact, all those starving children WILL end up dying with our planet.. (question of when, not if).
I love to outer space ..😊
It can almost be said that money is the answer to the necessities of life. But remember that money is not the only thing that is perfect. Money can be even worse than we imagine. We can be a different person 180 degrees just because of money. Our need for money has the potential to make us an ambitious individual to continue working and raising money without understanding the nature of life and work. Often this ambition that tends to resemble this madness changes our personality and makes us not as ourselves in the eyes of others.
Be especially careful for those of you who work with orientation on money. Sometimes we can change his personality because of money. But on the other hand money can show our identity. Money can test who we really are. Be careful in using the money you earn. The wisdom of using money equals saving yourself from the difficulties that may occur in the future.
I think spending billions is a good thing, we better put money from militaire from all over the world in space to move forward as a species other than booming each other. I know this is nearly impossible but it can be. It's very important to start building live on other planets such as Mars cause when a meteor strikes earth all living will die. There are so many interesting things that we don't know anything about, traveling to other stars. We have to start somewhere. By the way, we should not spend billions but trillions, in the militaire industry there goes about two trillion around (http://www.globalissues.org/article/75/world-military-spending). We should explore our oceans as well, we don't know a lot about them and we're destroying the live there as well.
Too many people spend the money they get ... to buy things they do not want ... to impress people they do not like..
No.... I'd rather spending billions of dollars researching cures for deadl diseases like cancer.....
I think the human race it too curious and so many things are born out our curiosity to be (like) God.i don't think exploring space is worth the billions
I hope will be more.
Yes, we should spend. It may be the only way to find these intelligent beings and save the human race from stupidity.
Congratulations winners
In my opinion, I think the human race it too curious and so many things are born out our curiosity to be (like) God.i don't think exploring space is worth the billions
I don't think exploring space is bad. It would bring the human race to the knowledge of new things in the universe.
Well, i really cannot say if the knowledge is worth the money but i am quite sure that knowledge is power and spending to acquire knowledge is better than spending for nothing
Why not spend the money on shopping or groceries lol
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Congrats to the winners.
Done :)
Of course, yes, I am sure that the knowledge we would obtain is worth more than the money that would be spent.
Leave a comment , done :)
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In my opinion exploration of space is a waste of resources as we are facing serious problems here on earth as the pollution of the oceans, global warming etc. The money, time and effort spent on space exploration has achieved so little by far so it would be better to use the ressources in order to solve issues human kind is facing on earth.
Spending money on knowledge is always worth it, and who knows if doing it you make a discovery that can make you a millionaire!
Why not? I'd prefer space exploration than spending on wars.
Yes very essentially ! We have to know what is on the dark side of the moon 🌑
I think yes, considering the population counter rising so high we might run out of natural resources soon and we will need something to replace. Outer Space is the only the location.
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As human and in human nature we are know to do exploits and that the advancement and achievements for what we have and use can use today.
If the billions spent in the exploration of space is of positive impact to the earth where u stay, then why not, i support the idea behind it. But if for any means the exploration of space will bring doom to us on earth as was as extend and contribute more to the degradation of the earth, then i suggest we stop.
There has to be a total research and evaluation on it before we go ahead. The earth is already suffering global warming and other Environmental pollution and we wouldn't want more added to it.
If it is a positive gain without causing, pains, injuries or future pollution i will support it.
Is the knowledge we gain worth the money we spend?
To my it depends on the type of knowledge we are talking about, because some knowledge are worth while some are not worth it.
For example, the amount spent in other to acquire ICT skills these days, cannot be tagged as a loss, because the world is going ITC. Infact in years to come you would have made double the price you paid to acquire it.
But before this works out, there must be that determination and zeal to actually learn from what ever you are spending.
There are a lot of people out there, who spend to acquire knowledge that doesn't worth it.
That is my humble submission, thanks.