Soldato
Space: the final frontier. These are the voyages of NASA. Their continuing mission: to explore strange new things, to seek out new life, to boldly go where no one has gone before.
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I might go there myself in me Polow just for the Lols.
Is that not a good enough reason? Why bother sending the robots, there's nothing up there that's going to help up out down here. The only way NASA's space exploration helps the rest of the world is with the technological advancements made to get stuff - including people - into space. So carry on with the flag planting.There is no point in sending men to Mars, robots can achieve just as much, if not more. The only reason to do it is to say that we have done it.
Those poor astronauts, tell you what let me go instead, I'm perfectly happy risking the radiation to go to Mars.Plus, you have to take into account the large dose rates that the atronaughts would recieve on their journey there and back and on spacewalks etc. It's too much.
Those poor astronauts, tell you what let me go instead, I'm perfectly happy risking the radiation to go to Mars.
I don't really mind who gets there first or whether it's the moon, mars, or somewhere else - so long as they share the fruits of getting there with the rest of us. This is one case where the journey is far more important than the destination.
being smart and not even trying does count as failing imo.
it would be stupid for us to even try - as we do not have the resources to throw at it, nor the appetite to do it.
Hmm, nice idea, I'd be suprised if that was practical though, beaming gigawatts of power from the moon to earth sounds like a recipe for disaster! I remember playing Sim City all those years ago, you could build powerplants that used orbiting solar panels and power was beamed down from them into big collectors, the damn things kept malfunctioning though and carving a hole in my city!
Why should a country pour tens of billions into research and have to give it away?
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If benefits were scrapped we could probably fund a space station in alpha centauri.
Since we can't even get the LHC working yet, going to Mars is pure fantasy.
It if it was working there woudn't need to be all the delays and "testing". It only reached 7Tev 17 days ago, years late and not even a continuous operation.The LHC IS working, and what does that have to do with space travel?