** The Official Space Flight Thread - The Space Station and Beyond **
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They don't have a point other than short sightedness. Technology ahs allowed us to grow more food, that includes earth observation satilites.
If we go by that way of thinking, we would never progress, there's always issues to solve.but you ahvent to spend money on everything. Not just a small slice and hinder progress.
No it can't, becuase the rocket has to be tested.Indeed but the resource to put a TESLA in space, could be argued that its better spent on solving poverty. Cheaper guns for the tribes that sort of thing
People aren't going to put multi million pound satilites on a demo flight, when even SpaceX said there was a large chance of failure.
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It cost 90 million dollars. How is that going to "solve poverty"?
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Those sonic booms and the noise of the fuel being burnt oh my turned into a grinning kid for a second.
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Afternoon is gone watching this - https://www.theverge.com/tldr/2018/2/6/16981144/spacex-tesla-falcon-heavy-roadster-live-stream
Live Stream of the car orbiting earth.
Live Stream of the car orbiting earth.
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What about solving world peace?
Space exploration > proof of alien life > destruction of religion > world peace.
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yes it does, it doesn't say in religious books "god made humans, ET, Xenomorphs"
Actually it does, it talks about many beings being up in heaven with him those aren't human and they aren't god, so by our definition they are ET.
You jump from one stupid comment to another.
It isn't really the thread for it but most religions are vague (in some cases purposefully so I suspect) and/or don't even touch on it at all others like Zoroastrianism are heavily steeped in references to aliens.
The whole idea of science and/or exploration of space proving or disproving religion is on very shaky ground though we can't rule out some kind of future scientific break through that had some kind of implications.
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Scientology?
they landed a rover last year, and their next lander is launching this year. will be the first country to land on the far side of the moon, and they've made no secret that they are building up the know how to land people on the moon.
race is already on, yet Congress keeps crippling nasa.
No the rocket cost 90m The development cost i would dread to think.
I am totally in favour of it by the way, The cheaper we can make space travel the better, however the spave elevator has to be the preferred option or teleportation.
the alternative delivery systems were costing nearer 1B, and the US govt will pay 170M for upcoming launch, so there is a cost saving
once/if SpaceX has broken even following earlier crashes ... so some spare R&D money for poverty
Since the mid section still crashed their insurance costs and future deployment might need further testing too, I guess
