We only explore 2% of oceanic dephts, but people are at 1000% on "yay let's create farm on an atmospherless red silt covered planet" What is your opinion? Why?
it is overrated, people love it though because it's trendy and the government loves it because people are more excited to pay taxes. We benefit very little from our investment in the space program, name one actual real world benefit that money has produced while homelessness runs rampant and water supply withers away
oh yeah okay you got me there, but most of the research and development shit in that area is not producing such real world benefits as gps. Lot's of stuff was developed for space and proven useful in other areas but because it was developed for space it costed way more than it would have if the free market came up with it. Every government project is a rip off so space is a rip off until it becomes free market.
While it is true that government project can be, and often are, more expensive than private counterparts, that doesn't mean there isn't a place for it. Most large, fundamental research projects are better undertaken as government enterprises (space exploration is slightly different as certain hard tasks can result in $$$), as typically the advancements to society made are indirect. For example, the space race drastically accelerated the development of integrated circuits. Sattelites would not have been possible without it either. Also typically developments require a 'known' need, and space presents these, and then people find out that thier 'new development' has useful purposes outside of the application it was directly developed for.
Also I think government projects being ripoffs has more to do with corruption and the (poor) tendering process (which even if carried out fairly often results in adverse outcomes).
I personally think we don't explore enough space, nor do we do enough research and spend money on related technology. The US spends $600 billion on the Military per year whereas NASA spends $18 Billion. If we swapped budgets, imagine what we could Achieve (and that's the US alone).
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I think it'd be fucking terrifying. And yeah; we should be focusing on the planet we're on. With colonising space the best case scenario at this point is the bourgeoisie jumping ship while the rest of us die in the anthropocene :/
I think we spend too much time and money on space exploration. Yes, it’s very cool and exciting, but there are more important issues right here on our own planet. Imagine if all of the money we have spent exploring space went to cancer research or something like that. I feel like that would be a much better use of our time and money.
Not at all. Just because we haven't seen most of the ocean doesn't mean we don't know what's there. In space however, every planet is different and have amazing phenomena that can occur exclusively there and probably flora and fauna in distant systems. In water, you know what's there? Fish, rocks, and sea weed. You know what's in space? No. Not at all. Compared to what it's possible to find I mean.
Space exploration was cool n all but honestly, we have much bigger problems. Space will be fine. It’s not dying of hunger or undergoing some other kind of worldly crisis.
Deep waters have high pressure and if you wanna try to build something in deep waters first make sure that you make it down there alive. Coz the pressure can crush you off like a tin can
It's not going to crush you inside a sealed container. Like a real tin can. Just kidding. But you'll be fine in a sealed structure like a submarine or Bioshock-esque building.
Yet many parts of the ocean are fully not discovered. Marianne Trench is the only known deepest part of the ocean. These are more undiscovered parts of the ocean
We spend too much time on killing and hurting each other. We need something big, new, exciting to do like fighting off an alien invasion (if that ever happens).
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Anonymous
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I think it is because it take so long to get there. Also everything is just a government conspiracy they probably never landed on the moon
well you know the groundbreaking film 2001 a space odyssey was filmed around the same time as the moon landing was released, yeah? Nobody could imitate a moon landing before this director's techniques. I'm not saying the moon landing didn't occur, but the government did have a fake one filmed by him for propaganda purposes so they could still tell the world they won the space race if they failed their mission
We can't make food l especially like potatoes under water. So... Making them on the moon somehow or Mars would grestlt benefit us when we on earth run out of space dor growing crops, building houses, forrests etc.
Need an offsite backup of humanity. If we are wiped out by a meteor the ocean won't help.
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hell no it's not overrated. Do you know how much the minerals are worth that they're fining on asteroids and shit now? Just wait until they get the laws set up to allow corporations to mass mine them all. There's good money to be made from space.
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