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How Important is Space Exploration as a National Interest?

How Important is Space Exploration as a National Interest?

  • Very, we should be sending men back to the moon, to Mars, and beyond

    Votes: 39 67.2%
  • Somewhat, but we should stick to sending probes

    Votes: 4 6.9%
  • Not very important now, maybe in the future

    Votes: 9 15.5%
  • Not at all, it's a distraction and a waste of money

    Votes: 9 15.5%
  • Space is boring.

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Total voters
    58
Space is the future of our species, both on Earth and in the stars.

One day our Sun will die, and if we don't learn how to travel to far off worlds and colonize then our species will be done for. This is also assuming that we don't destroy our planet or kill ourselves off before that day. Or some other catastrophic event doesn't happen as well; like an asteroid hitting us.
 
none, besides we have more than enough right here on earth
 
well it will actually become a red giant and fry us but who's counting the billions of years that will take?

Which is why we need to get the hell off of this rock before then!
 
hah Your Star imagine how much we will have evolved by then?
current humans will seem like heck I can't even imagine it
 
how much iron can be potentially be mined out of an asteroid?

Depends on how much iron is in it. You would also have to locate, travel to, and safely land on something that, on average, is moving at a speed of around 15 miles per second. There's also the issue if debris striking the equipment, vessel, and personnel, if human beings are even present, should such a thing ever become possible. It's an extremely dangerous environment.
 
Depends on how much iron is in it. You would also have to locate, travel to, and safely land on something that, on average, is moving at a speed of around 15 miles per second. There's also the issue if debris striking the equipment, vessel, and personnel, if human beings are even present, should such a thing ever become possible. It's an extremely dangerous environment.

if the develop special interstellar mining platforms, then iron mining could become a major industry again.
 
so we have run out of iron? I didn't get the memo
 
if the develop special interstellar mining platforms, then iron mining could become a major industry again.

A mining platform would be too risky and expensive. With drone software technology, it would be safer and less costly to fire a projectile into the asteroid that is able to extract the ore, and return a capsule containing the ore to a predetermined location.
 
drag the thing into earth orbit and mine it there and when we were done chuck it into the sun
 
How realistic is a space program in the age of sequestration?
 
I believe it's extremely important.

But our President, Barack Obama doesn't. In fact Obama already announced what the main mission of NASA will be from now on. Reaching out to the Muslims world.


NASA Chief: Move Out Of The Way Startrek, Next Frontier Better Relations With Muslim World

NASA Administrator Charles Bolden said in a recent interview that his "foremost" mission as the head of America's space exploration agency is to improve relations with the Muslim world.

Though international diplomacy would seem well outside NASA's orbit, Bolden said in an interview with Al Jazeera that strengthening those ties was among the top tasks President Obama assigned him. He said better interaction with the Muslim world would ultimately advance space travel.

Read more: NASA Chief: Next Frontier Better Relations With Muslim World | Fox News

Since when did you realize our Muslim secret?! Obviously Bolden and Obama are no longer falling for our camouflage!

We have been traveling everywhere whilst you were not watching! This is why NASA and Obama want our friendly relationship! It is all about space flight achieved with less cost effective means such as what we use.

We have the means and they were right in front of your noses all this time! I cannot believe you felt for it! Here is one sample of the rockets that have been flying to various planets ever since 16th century:

Rocket Mosque.jpg

It runs on prayer energy. This in fact is the only clementine image taken since.

So you want our secrets? It shall costs yah! :tongue4:
 
So the ISS has revealed a lot of interesting things, the foremost of this is how bad humans do in space. If you spend over 6months in space your body is prone to all manner of disasters, including going blind because of the way fluids in your eyes behave. And there is no way to fix this without artificial gravity. Sure, there are proposals for AG but no working model.

A manned mission to Mars will take at least 2 years. That's 4x more than the recommended stay in space. Unless we find a way to counter this (hint hint ,artificial gravity) there is no such thing as interplanetary travel, let alone interstellar travel.

thankfully, we don't have to send people yet. We can send probes and robots. Robots don't need to have AI, just very good software and the ability to be manually controlled. Like curiosity is, but you know, specialized for certain tasks.
 
How realistic is a space program in the age of sequestration?

Even before Obama's sequestration there is no government manned spacecraft in the pipeline.

In fact Obama has told Congress that he wants depend on Russia for putting Americans into space. Putin has no problem with American greenbacks. It just means less greenbacks in America's economy and more in Russia's economy.

There is the American private sector who have manned spacecraft in the pipeline.
 
thankfully, we don't have to send people yet. We can send probes and robots. Robots don't need to have AI, just very good software and the ability to be manually controlled. Like curiosity is, but you know, specialized for certain tasks.

Or a combination of the two. Send frozen sperm and estrogen within an artificial womb properly concealed to withstand the entry shock to another planet. When the rocket reaches the desired planet the pre-programed or if possible manually controlled robots would nanny (and protect) the first generation of humans there.

Holy rockets!

Best kind working way before the concept was even designed. The west owes a lot to us Muslims! Stealing our design of how a rocket should look like too!
 
the stars are out of our reach

there is no atmosphere on Mars
nor is there a magnetic field to keep the radiation form space from frying you

a self sufficient 'space colony' is far outside our current technological grasp

sorry the romanticism of space is over

TOL's killer asteroid could end us but that's not going to happen until the year
3962 and long before that we will have colonized many other worlds and developed
the technology to tractor beam the rock off course and save the planet so he'll be disappointed (yet again)


Russians unveil space hotel



Course only around 1 mil for a 5 day stay. :2razz:

Oh.....that's US dolla. :lol:
 
In the reviews I liked this part:

"Nyx's bitter nature and morbid outlook soured the experience for me. She just isn't at all enjoyable to read about. Her thoughts revolve around death and pain and getting drunk, and that's most of what she experiences."

You can choose the good reviews or the bad reviews of any book. Or you can read it.

Where a matriarchal society founded on Muslim religion enforces its laws through bounty hunters, and an ongoing holy war claims the lives of the men.

Has something to do with the point I was making to the other poster.
 
Even before Obama's sequestration there is no government manned spacecraft in the pipeline.

In fact Obama has told Congress that he wants depend on Russia for putting Americans into space. Putin has no problem with American greenbacks. It just means less greenbacks in America's economy and more in Russia's economy.

There is the American private sector who have manned spacecraft in the pipeline.

Isn't the private sector always better than the government?
 
Russians unveil space hotel



Course only around 1 mil for a 5 day stay. :2razz:

Oh.....that's US dolla. :lol:


If I had $1M to spare I would totally do it. That news woman in the vid is a real b****, mocking the station for not having four-star dining. HOW ABOUT THE ACTUAL F***ING STARS???
 
There is the American private sector who have manned spacecraft in the pipeline.
And that's where space flight will gain true legitimacy. The government just wants good PR, and rocks to put in a museum. The private sector will want results and profit, and that's how we move forward. Keeping it government only will only perpetuate the state of stagnation our space program has faced since the 70's.
 
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