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Top 10 Reasons for a Space Program

Posted by michael on from the whole-lot-of-nothing dept.

Its_My_Hair writes "Space.com has an article on the top ten reasons for a space program. Most of the reasons seem to say that our space programs are here for our safety." The only necessary reason is "because it's there".

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  1. Safety? by Tony+Hoyle · · Score: 3, Funny

    How can a space program be there for our safety?

    Maybe GWB thinks it's full of Weapons of Mass Destruction? (the little pixies told him so...)

  2. Re:Why use people? by wirah · · Score: 2, Funny

    Sending animals up is not only cruel, its a waste of a valuable and intelligent lifeform. Send bush up instead.

  3. an upper limit... by n0mad6 · · Score: 5, Funny
    ...for long-term survival of our species on Earth is ~1 billion years. This is roughly when increased thermal output of the sun (in its prepetual battle to hold itself up against its own gravitational pressure) will cause temperatures on Earth to rise to the point that the oceans start to boil away.

    of course, by then, the machines will have taken over, so the issue of human survival will become moot.

    1. Re:an upper limit... by WolfWithoutAClause · · Score: 2, Funny
      ...for long-term survival of our species on Earth is ~1 billion years. This is roughly when increased thermal output of the sun (in its prepetual battle to hold itself up against its own gravitational pressure) will cause temperatures on Earth to rise to the point that the oceans start to boil away.

      of course, by then, the machines will have taken over, so the issue of human survival will become moot.

      "Oh well, just time for a quick bath then. Pass the soap could you someone." -Douglas Adams

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  4. How dare you.. by Channard · · Score: 4, Funny
    .. mock the leader of the greatest nation in the world. If you'd watched anything other than the lefty pink commie news station you tune into, you'd know the real facts. Our great president has irrefutable evidence that The Clangers, lead by the evil dictator The Soup Dragon, have developed weapons of mass destruction, fashioned from illegally imported felt and cardboard.

    These terrorists must be stopped before they can launch their attack against the free world and I for one welcome our president's plan to nuke the moon. I sure as hell won't miss it.

    1. Re:How dare you.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      As a proud citizen, I blame the French for giving those bastards the scissors and glue necasary for the construction of their felt and cardboard weapons. As a protest I have stopped drinking wine, and I now instead drink port. That'll show 'em!

  5. the fundamental reason by Dan9999 · · Score: 4, Funny

    it is possibly a quicker way to get to India to bring back spices.

  6. Re:Impending meteor notification by Timesprout · · Score: 2, Funny

    Of course they would, but in true /. fashion it would be just after the event occurs with a dupe a few weeks later.

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  7. Reason 11 by Little+Dave · · Score: 1, Funny

    So we think we know a little about space eh? Well answer me this Eisenstein... The astrologers in their ivory towers tell us that space is a vacuum, no air right? So how in the name of Mike does the Sun keep burning? How? HOW??

    We need to land manned spaceships on the surface of the sun to answer this question, and maybe take that self-satisfied smirk off the faces of the astromonkeys!

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  8. And the number one reason... by Junior+J.+Junior+III · · Score: 4, Funny

    Lady Liberty is up to her neck, and you've got to find a way off this blasted rock... get yer hands offa me, you damn dirty ape!

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  9. Wait a minute by glwtta · · Score: 2, Funny

    I thought the number one reason was that we have to acquire alien technology to defend ourselves against the Goa'uld, who are capable of reaching earth in their ships, even if we bury the gate?

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  10. Re:Space... by cosmo7 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yes You can go google all the above for yourself, why Because I'm a lazy critic.

    You misspelled 'troll".

  11. Re:those who don't dream eventually go crazy... by Tackhead · · Score: 4, Funny
    > > "What do you see when you look up at the stars at night?"
    >
    >Stars.

    ...and a burning desire to know what the fuck happened to my roof!

  12. Re:Objectives by I+Like+Swords!!! · · Score: 2, Funny

    I mean, c'mon, stuck on a ship with 3-4 other people for months on end? It's Fox's new reality show!

    New reality show... I can see it now: Survivor - The Martian Landscape...

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  13. Re:"Because its there" is not good enough by PhxBlue · · Score: 3, Funny

    We need more reasons besides "because its there" to justify spending billions of taxpayer dollars.

    Why? It worked well enough for Iraq.

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