...or shouldn't we solve the problems and help people that live on this planet before we start going inside of it? It just seems like a waste of money.
It annoys me so much when people complain about something so fantastic, marvellous and even useful as space exploration, while they almost never point out the fact that a lot more money go into the military budget every year.
How is researching for new weapons a way of helping people on this planet? Or funding the armies, navies and air forces that use them, how does this help anyone? Here's another question: If we stopped doing what some people think unnecessary, would we then begion to help the poor and the sick and the homeless? Of course not, because less money for peaceful science and colonisation means more money for military actions and other bad things.
Why do we do it? Why do we wish to explore beyond our horizon, why do we wish to find new worlds to colonise? Maybe it widens our horizons. It gives us answers to ancient questions, it tickles our imaginations, it gives us hope. Should we rather stay here, to stagnate?
I'm certainly not saying that we shouldn't solve our problems here too. We should. And I believe that to do so we need to stop living in fear of each other and ourselves, we need to stop fighting each other and start to cooperate for the good of everyone. Sadly not enough people in power want this to happen.
Meanwhile, back in 1903... I've witnessed these two bike repairmen, who made an aeroplane that could fly just a few metres. There's no way we could ever hope to fly around the world, or faster than the speed of sound, or in aeroplanes that can take hundreds of passengers across the ocean with a speed of several hundred km/h. It will never happen.
I agree completely that we need those things, but surely a space elevator would be useful if you ever would want to lift stuff off the ground and to the spaceships/spacestations?
Well the idea is that it's a reusable system, which means you're going to use it for quite some time.
As for going to the Moon and Mars and beyond, I think that what is going to be one of the cornerstones in that programme (at least when we're talking about NASA) is the CEV. However I think that if we're serious in colonising the Moon and Mars then we need something more than the CEV. On a long term I would like to see orbital facilities where one can process and use raw materials from the Moon and NEA's and build spacestations or spaceships.
Why not send probes to both destinations? And indeed why not to Mars, Titan, Europa, Ganymede, Callisto, Io, Triton, and there are so many worlds to explore. I'm serious btw. I do think we should explore all these worlds with robots of various kinds, rover, balloons where possible, etc. Then of course we would follow.
He was sharing "a film" as in one film, and can get jail for that? I hope no one will ever tell on me for what I and everyone else did when we were kids; copying each other's music tapes and CDs.
No, it depends on actual evidence. So the universe seems to be 13.7 billion years, and Earth about 4.5 billion years. Religion is completely irrelevant.
The Cassini orbiter is almost only NASA but not entirely. I do think that if we're going to cooperate with NASA we should be more objective about who contributed with what. Luckily, media over here was pretty good in pointing out how Cassini was mainly a NASA project while Huygens was mainly a ESA project.
More like fantasy. The science in the Bible is simply awful and not realistic at all.
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Why is this unbelievable? I've never heard of him, never seen him on TV, never heard him on the radio, never encountered him on the internet... and still, somehow, people act as if he's the second coming of someone famous. You assume I would know of someone who I've never heard of. Maybe he's the greatest star over in the USA, but contrary to popular belief, USA is not the entire world.
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I suppose you have a point, that you will reveal at a later time?
Why must there be immediate practical applications for everything?
Oh I know... I was just doing the same as some do when there's a space exploration story posted on /..
...or shouldn't we solve our problems on this planet that is in the real world before we start producing sci-fi shows about other worlds?
...or shouldn't we solve the problems and help people that live on this planet before we start going inside of it? It just seems like a waste of money.
How is researching for new weapons a way of helping people on this planet? Or funding the armies, navies and air forces that use them, how does this help anyone? Here's another question: If we stopped doing what some people think unnecessary, would we then begion to help the poor and the sick and the homeless? Of course not, because less money for peaceful science and colonisation means more money for military actions and other bad things.
Why do we do it? Why do we wish to explore beyond our horizon, why do we wish to find new worlds to colonise? Maybe it widens our horizons. It gives us answers to ancient questions, it tickles our imaginations, it gives us hope. Should we rather stay here, to stagnate?
I'm certainly not saying that we shouldn't solve our problems here too. We should. And I believe that to do so we need to stop living in fear of each other and ourselves, we need to stop fighting each other and start to cooperate for the good of everyone. Sadly not enough people in power want this to happen.
One rover called the ExoMars, and a few years after that, the sample return mission. Two separate missions, as the article says.
Meanwhile, back in 1903...
I've witnessed these two bike repairmen, who made an aeroplane that could fly just a few metres. There's no way we could ever hope to fly around the world, or faster than the speed of sound, or in aeroplanes that can take hundreds of passengers across the ocean with a speed of several hundred km/h. It will never happen.
I agree completely that we need those things, but surely a space elevator would be useful if you ever would want to lift stuff off the ground and to the spaceships/spacestations?
As for going to the Moon and Mars and beyond, I think that what is going to be one of the cornerstones in that programme (at least when we're talking about NASA) is the CEV. However I think that if we're serious in colonising the Moon and Mars then we need something more than the CEV. On a long term I would like to see orbital facilities where one can process and use raw materials from the Moon and NEA's and build spacestations or spaceships.
Why not send probes to both destinations? And indeed why not to Mars, Titan, Europa, Ganymede, Callisto, Io, Triton, and there are so many worlds to explore. I'm serious btw. I do think we should explore all these worlds with robots of various kinds, rover, balloons where possible, etc. Then of course we would follow.
The solution to his problems is obvious, just reply to all that spam that says "get ouf of debt now" and then he can start spamming again in no time.
You cannot possibly be serious. Don't you think they are developing software to reach as many users as possible?
He was sharing "a film" as in one film, and can get jail for that? I hope no one will ever tell on me for what I and everyone else did when we were kids; copying each other's music tapes and CDs.
No, it depends on actual evidence. So the universe seems to be 13.7 billion years, and Earth about 4.5 billion years. Religion is completely irrelevant.
I'm working on a 1.5 GB Office extension, it's still in beta though.
Yeah that is very annoying. It doesn't free up memory when I close down tabs, and to free all of it you have to close and restart it.
Yes but only with a printer that can print 24 sheets of paper per second.
The Cassini orbiter is almost only NASA but not entirely. I do think that if we're going to cooperate with NASA we should be more objective about who contributed with what. Luckily, media over here was pretty good in pointing out how Cassini was mainly a NASA project while Huygens was mainly a ESA project.
As a former 14 year old boy I can only say that if I had internet at that age, I would not need to be tricked into going to those websites...
I've never tasted Milka, so I can't say much about it. However, if yo want good chocolate, try really dark Belgian chocolate. Mmmmm...
More like fantasy. The science in the Bible is simply awful and not realistic at all.
In what country?
Why is this unbelievable? I've never heard of him, never seen him on TV, never heard him on the radio, never encountered him on the internet... and still, somehow, people act as if he's the second coming of someone famous. You assume I would know of someone who I've never heard of. Maybe he's the greatest star over in the USA, but contrary to popular belief, USA is not the entire world.
Sure it's great to have some chicks around but really, they go wherever they want to go and so do we guys, why is this so alarming?