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The Top Three Reasons for Humans in Space
An anonymous reader writes "Why humans in space? The Space Review has the top three reasons: 3. To work. 2. To live. 1. To survive. 'To work' means doing stuff in space: research, explore, visit, etc. 'To live' means to have humans/life beyond Earth in colonies/settlements. 'To survive' means that putting humans/life beyond Earth is a very Good Thing in case a very Bad Thing happens to humans/life on Earth."
0. FOX News satellite broadcasts pointing in opposite direction.
Athletic Scholarships to universities make as much sense as academic scholarships to sports teams.
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How the heck did "Work" beat out "Anti-Gravity Porn"?
I can understand Living and Surviving are pretty important but I could list a few hundred things that would beat out "Work" on my priority list.
I'm a big tall mofo.
1. Space
2. ???
3. Profit!!!
Get thee glass eyes, and, like a scurvy politician, seem to see things thou dost not.--King Lear
The glorious potential of space porn!
"but does that mean it's our manifest destiny to spread life throughout the universe, merely for the sake of spreading life?"
Obviously you were not raised Catholic.
-Dipster
Actually, I was. That's why I'm questioning this one.
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What if someone decides to have a intergalactic highway running exactly over the planet earth. On the other hand, if we decide to move into space, our ranking from "mostly harmless" will go up for sure:=)
Then it would have to be NOSA instead of NASA, which would piss off NOAA to no end, forcing the president to combine them under DHS into the Nautical/Aeronautic Defense Administration or NADA.
I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate.
Always have a backup civilisation/planet/atmosphere in case the first goes down.
Make sure you have enough redundancy in your population to ensure DNA data integrity
I believe it is arrogant of man to think he is capable of damaging the earth to the point of it being uninhabitable
Damn straight!
That's why I propose we cut straight to the chase, and blow up the sun.
Who's with me?
Curiosity was framed. Ignorance killed the cat.
Sure, but you're missing an important point
<echo>"Humans... On other plaaaaaaaannnnneeeettttttssss"</echo>
just doesn't sound as good as
<echo>"Humans... iiiiiin spaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaace!"</echo>
Curiosity was framed. Ignorance killed the cat.
you are correct, hey just 13 years ago they admitted that galileo was right and issued a formal apology.
I'm pretty sure they used rockets.
Intron: the portion of DNA which expresses nothing useful.
Real reason: Job security for space scientists.
Robotic exploration of space is the only kind we should ever do.
Help end the use of Sigs. Tomorrow
I am picturing the Mars colony having their own Mars tea party, civil war, independance day, and finally both planets creating IPBM's (Inter-Planetary Ballistic Missiles) ushering in a new era of inter-planetary MAD.
You also have to consider the possibility of Marvin the Marshan finding his Uranium PU-36 Explosive Space modulator or the Cylons attacking.
Whatever can be done by a man, a probe can do better.
A female on slashdot?
NASA is going to be extinct because it is run by dinosaurs.
Hey, don't discourge the fanatics from moving to mars. This world will be far better off with them on Mars.
But wouldn't we all die from our dirty telephones then?
Information wants to be anthropomorphized.
-1, Too Reasonable
Got time? Spend some of it coding or testing