Tuesday, April 10, 2012

Space Exploration; is it worth the cost?

The big question which everybody has probably thought of once in their life time is if space exploration is really worth all the risks and costs. While we have made many astonishing discoveries in space is their really something that can help us change our way? Or be an emergency planet if our world gets destroyed? or should we stick with helping our own planet before moving on to another? These are all great questions to think of when thinking about space. I will do my best to answer all of these the way i believe it should be (my own opinion)

I think that sending people out to space is a good way to take samples of ideas (such as plants) but can be very dangerous and may lead to what happen with the columbia space shuttle. Earth based research is a good and safe way to lear new information but iv got to admit that its not as affective as being there your self. Sending out robots to space to collect is an information is once again a safe and good way to collect data but a thing to keep it mind is that the scientist who's controlling the robot may give signals to it and it will respond sometimes 10-15 mins after because there is a long gab and the signal of course isn't that strong. All of these different ways of getting information have their pros and cons. If its not danger then its accuracy, if its not accuracy then its the speed, nothing can be as accurate and as good as a living person.

Now to answer the questions which i had at the beginning of my writing. I truly believe that Nasa or any other space program out there can't find any helpful resource from space which will help us with our lives our with our earths. Even if our planet is dying one day and they do find another to replace it will you thing that we could reach it in time not to grow old and die in a space ship? How many space ships should be made to fit the whole world, this would right away equal a lot of money! maybe even more then 20 trillion dollars. Therefore the possibility of finding another planet or substance of some sort which can help us is really love, for that reason i would focus more on the earth and help people/kids in need. Nasa has a lot of money in their hands they could easily share it with other countries which are quite poor such as Africa. Imagine if everyone was rich in someway there would be a lot of smiles, we wouldn't even be that interested in space because OUR world is so precious and nice. When scientists are look at new planets they are subconsciously trying to escape this one and picture a better one in their mind.

If i was congress with a fixed money to spend the most important thing that i would use my money for would be helping the ones in need (this can also include animals, but the focus would be a little bit more on humans.) After that i would give my money to the hospitals which then would use that money to buy medicine and tools which would save lives of many. Some other things i would give my money for would also be figuring out cures for cancer, and just help our whole environment. After all those important tasks have been completed, only then shall i give money for the research of space.

As you can see space is important but what we got on this world is more important and we should rather look after that then something in space which we possibly may not even go to.

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