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Poll 38 to 6 in favor of continuing. Motion carried, manned exploration of space will continue. :mrgreen:
Seriously, are none of you opposers excited about the idea of a new frontier to colonize? If not for yourself and your kids, for your grandkids or great-great's?
Y'all talk like none of that could have been developed outside of NASA. NASA happens to get a lot of money, well more than the NSF and other scientific funding agencies. They have come up with many great things, but many of those things would have also been developed in other labs if NASA hadn't done it themselves.
I agree. But they weren't. Credit where its due.
exactly, and NASA is given far more credit than it deserves....
If something happens to threaten the planet and we have no options the human race is dead.
The most important task that humankind can have is to find a way off this rock and settle another one.
It was an asinine waste of time to spend all we did to get to the moon if we even did get there and stop going there.
Why do we fail to see the future and doom ourselves to the limits of stupidity and waste. Humanity settles that war is always the answer and will always be. They also say Utopia is an unattainable dream. The human mind limits its own failure by accepting defeat before it even starts.
Space travel should be what all of mankind is about.
I disagree with that. I think they get the exact credit they deserve, but sometimes with excess. I grew up with a parent working for NASA for 35 years and have some familiarity with the organization.
so you have no direct knowledge or bias?
I worked with engineers at a govt owned nuclear research lab....they tend to waste money proving what they already know.
Our tax dollars can better be spent repairing the crumbling infrastructure that is all around us....
or better yet, working on developing alternative ways to satisfy the nation's energy needs...
Every single government program falls under that category. It is a problem with most governments.
I would be willing to bet that new energy alternatives will happen based on something coming out of NASA.
Well what do you know, it is already happening...
NASA - Wind Energy Research Reaps Rewards
Department of Energy - NASA and DOE Collaborate on Dark Energy Research
Renewable Energy Microgrid Research Workshop at NASA Ames | Jack Baskin School of Engineering | UC Santa Cruz
I fully support our space program. Or any space program for that matter.
The problem with government is that they can't let go of programs they start. As long as the knot heads in Congress have a say on how money is spent there is no program that will work.
or better yet, working on developing alternative ways to satisfy the nation's energy needs...
Every single government program falls under that category. It is a problem with most governments.
I would be willing to bet that new energy alternatives will happen based on something coming out of NASA.
Well what do you know, it is already happening...
NASA - Wind Energy Research Reaps Rewards
Department of Energy - NASA and DOE Collaborate on Dark Energy Research
Renewable Energy Microgrid Research Workshop at NASA Ames | Jack Baskin School of Engineering | UC Santa Cruz
I fully support our space program. Or any space program for that matter.
Hope you are not holding your breath for any of that to happen within the next few decades, even on a small scale...
so you have no direct knowledge or bias?
I worked with engineers at a govt owned nuclear research lab....they tend to waste money proving what they already know.
Our tax dollars can better be spent repairing the crumbling infrastructure that is all around us....
or better yet, working on developing alternative ways to satisfy the nation's energy needs...
Thats all well and good, but makes little difference. We work within the system we have, end of story.
Maybe the system will collapse. Ah we can only hope.
You said...
"Our tax dollars can better be spent repairing the crumbling infrastructure that is all around us....
or better yet, working on developing alternative ways to satisfy the nation's energy needs..." - UtahBill
So your reply is little more than a red-herring.
A Red Herring is a fallacy in which an irrelevant topic is presented in order to divert attention from the original issue.
They are doing exactly what you requested. Time is irrelevant.
NASA works on energy sources for NASA needs, space and air...
DOE works on other energy sources...so let's put some of the NASA engineers to work over at the DOE....not that they have a shortage of personnel trying to find ways to get us off the arab oil teat...strange, they have been working on that since the 70's and still we are addicted to arab oil.
Long story short, I have little confidence in govt agencies inventing or developing anything that will help us.
NASA works on energy sources for NASA needs, space and air...
DOE works on other energy sources...so let's put some of the NASA engineers to work over at the DOE....not that they have a shortage of personnel trying to find ways to get us off the arab oil teat...strange, they have been working on that since the 70's and still we are addicted to arab oil.
Long story short, I have little confidence in govt agencies inventing or developing anything that will help us.
So what? It ends up in the civilian sector soon enough.
More advances have come from NASA in technology's than all other government agency's combined.
More fallacy. The DOE has nothing to do with anything I said.
And yet you ignore all the good NASA technology has done.
10 NASA Inventions You Might Use Every Day
NASA Spinoffs - Inventions Benefiting Our Daily Lives - Apollo Spinoff Inventions
"Nasa has had a hand in developing just about every synthetic material in existence today, agricultural awareness, detailed maps of the earth, measurung the impact we have on the environment, chemicals, alloys, medicinal/chemical understanding, better computers, shock absorbsion, and just about everything concieved or invented within the past 40 years... excluding the set-it-and-forget-it rotisserie. - WikiAnswers - What inventions has NASA developed
NASA is worth it's weight in gold.
So what? It ends up in the civilian sector soon enough.
More advances have come from NASA in technology's than all other government agency's combined.
And yet you ignore all the good NASA technology has done.
[NASA is worth it's weight in gold.
what NASA developed energy source is common in the civilian sector today?
NASA more than all others? Prove it.....
Not ignoring, just adding perspective.
GOLD? If only....
first link doesn't work, third link says nothing, second link has a list of exaggerations. Do you really think kidney dialysis and freeze dried foods are NASA inventions?
That is just 2 from the list. Do an independent search using google on all of the items listed and you will find that most were being worked on prior to 1960. You might even say that NASA is stealing credit for the work of others.
Did they make improvements? Certainly, but those improvements would likely have happened anyway.
Do we still drive Model T Fords? No....and NASA has almost nothing to do with the constant modernization of the automobile....
Like I said, NASA has lots of PR people with marketing skills spewing out propaganda to justify the enhancement of their annual budget...
THAT is their primary purpose, to enhance their budget. Same with most govt agencies....
Wind energy, solar energy have been used by man for thousands of years...Every single government program falls under that category. It is a problem with most governments.
I would be willing to bet that new energy alternatives will happen based on something coming out of NASA.
Well what do you know, it is already happening...
NASA - Wind Energy Research Reaps Rewards
Department of Energy - NASA and DOE Collaborate on Dark Energy Research
Renewable Energy Microgrid Research Workshop at NASA Ames | Jack Baskin School of Engineering | UC Santa Cruz
I fully support our space program. Or any space program for that matter.
Wind energy, solar energy have been used by man for thousands of years...
We need more money (smaller class sizes) for our schools and less for more wasteful things such as fed. govt programs (NASA)..
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