So Obama is cutting the Constellation program...

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Originally Posted by V-Opolis

shouldnt we get earth under control before we start lookin outside our habitat?Like my Geology teacher said, it doesnt matter how much space researc we do, if we cant live on earth long enough to do something with it, it wont matter.

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Just curious but...

How do you feel about microprocessors?

Or... Hmm... You know, the satellites that let geologists research with precision the movement of the shifts of Earth plates? (I bet your geology teacher is pretty fond of that.)

NASA does far more than just pick up space rocks and look at super novas. They've raised the bar technologically in so many ways it's almost impossible to calculate just exactly how much they have affected history. Although you can do an economic measurement: over the course of NASA's history, every one dollar the U.S. government funded NASA has ended up in seven to eight dollars produced in goods. That's an 700% return from technological research going directly into the economy.

Eh, I don't think we should even go to the moon again until we have the ability to land a base there

Flameproofshield,ACTIVATE!

Plus, we need to conquer Earth before we can conquer the moon......JK.

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Originally Posted by blablabity

Eh, I don't think we should even go to the moon again until we have the ability to land a base there

Flameproofshield,ACTIVATE!

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It's not about making a base, it's about taking the knowledge we gained from all the rover missions and moonwalks and investigating them further since Humans have a more reliable and more complex set of tools that they can use that robots cannot. There's still a lot to learn about the various craters and rocks on the Moon.

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Originally Posted by Xenonight2

Just curious but...

How do you feel about microprocessors?

Or... Hmm... You know, the satellites that let geologists research with precision the movement of the shifts of Earth plates? (I bet your geology teacher is pretty fond of that.)

NASA does far more than just pick up space rocks and look at super novas. They've raised the bar technologically in so many ways it's almost impossible to calculate just exactly how much they have affected history. Although you can do an economic measurement: over the course of NASA's history, every one dollar the U.S. government funded NASA has ended up in seven to eight dollars produced in goods. That's an 700% return from technological research going directly into the economy.

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i didnt say anything about NASA, i said studying outer space, like were going to do something with it.

And the chance an alien species comes and gives us the technology to leave earth is slim to none, so nobody say anything about " but we arnt the only life in the universe".

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Originally Posted by IronyTaken

I am pretty sure earth will be here for billions of years to come.

Although not sure about the human race. If we did survive we would have split of and evolved into seperate species by then.

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what i meant. shoulda been clearer. by "taming the earth" i mean getting everything settled here, so that we dont die off, mass civil wars over food/water etc, or something. I know we cant kill the earth, only ourselfs.

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Originally Posted by IronyTaken

But it is I who came from the future who traveled to the past and brought the alien technology here.

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time paradox...o shi-

no reason to dick around with space when earth is dieing

good call obama