From 1958 to 2008, NASA's budget amounts to $471.23 billion dollars—an average of $9.06 billion per year.
Should we or should we not be spending money on space exploration?
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6 comments:
I believe we should. I mean, the facilities are available, its completely possible, and people are capable are doing it for the sake of research, so why not?
However, the budget must be reduced. This big number sounds a little overabundant.
Space explorations definitely contribute towards technological development of the societies. We get to learn more about the other dimensions and make use of the possibilities available.
I agree with Moza and as a further point all first ventures into something new can at first be costly put as we get an idea of what where doing and as technology advances to our benefit you often find that prices meet a major decrease from where it started. Everything takes a first risk but if you don't do it someday it will never be done.
I see absolutely no fault in spending a large amount of money on research that could possible benefit us. Yes it may sound as if the budget is of a great extend. However, I believe it is much more valuable to spend our money on discovering the wonders of the universe rather on other futile things such as war. Perhaps if a country increases ones budget on space and exploration along with other scientific research, less money will be left for our barbaric actions.
In the end of the day,almost all the funds that we've spend on space exploration have proved to be worth it. We have learnt great deals about the universe that we reside in within such a short amount of time.
Well, like Shaday stated, its all about the risk. all great things have that one great big risk. And in terms of space exploration, our risk is the cost. Yes the budget might be extensive but if the overall outcome is going to benefit us at the end, why not?
Look at it this way, if we can spend a great deal of money repairing losses at wars (which according to me solves absolutely nothing but, rather creates more problems) then why shouldn’t we spend money for something that would benefit us?
and lets face it, if us humans keep overusing and/or destroying our natural resources, they are bound to run out. What do we do then? Scientists are constantly looking for alternative or ‘back up planets’ incase we run out of our natural resources. And who knows, maybe 50 centuries from now, with highly advanced technology, we could be living on a whole new found planet.
Just think how much we've spent on weapons, movies, art, and music - to put things in perspective: Just think about how much we've spent on cigarettes and alcohol and drugs. Just think about how much we've spent on gambling and the lottery - how much on ipods and playstations and other little gadgets.
In my opinion, space exploration is vastly more important than any of the above. It involves not just an exploration of our origins and other possible life forms, but of matter, space, time, and energy as well. It involves research into the nature of reality, an investigation into the extent of our universe and and a hunt for other dimensions.
But above all, space exploration is important because it's the last frontier - out there, the vastness of space provides such a wonderful opportunity to further the human spirit and take our ingenuity to the next level.
Just think: there's an entire universe of knowledge and information out there and we are stuck on this tiny blue dot of a planet.
I don't think we should because it is an escape from reality.
Also, the only reason NASA or USA wants satellites in space is because they want to spy on other countries. Space exploration is a guise for this. The people who were trying to fight communism, not so long ago want to conquer the world with their ally; a small country in the middle east that is rightfully Palestine's.
There is always a political reason for what the USA does, and it is unjust and abuse of their power.
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