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Originally posted by FabianFnasMoon, hell! You could finance ten trips to Mars for that price! Aren't we pushing a tril now?
How many moon-landings would you get for, say, one Iraq war?
Well we know why Obama canceled the moon return, don't we:
He couldn't take the chance on the fake landings in '69 being blown open, right?
Just too embarrassing, eh.
Originally posted by sonhouseDude I know like I'm so sure they landed on the moon 40 years ago if they had drove through the Van Halen Belts they'd a all got supar powers like the Fantastic Four but Buzz Aldrin don't even have Xray vision so that proves it was all a fake.
Moon, hell! You could finance ten trips to Mars for that price! Aren't we pushing a tril now?
Well we know why Obama canceled the moon return, don't we:
He couldn't take the chance on the fake landings in '69 being blown open, right?
Just too embarrassing, eh.
Me an my hoax friends all agree with you.
Tomorrow we're gonna build a fort.
Originally posted by AThousandYoungSo are you saying
But it's the things which are not priorities which get cut when the hard times come financially.
A. it is a priority but should be cut
B. it is a priority and should not be cut
C. it is not a priority and should be cut
D. it is not a priority and should not be cut
Phone a friend? ask the audience? 50-50?
Originally posted by AThousandYoungFor instance, besides just dude's going to other planets in the solar system, which I understand you think a waste of money, don't forget about weather satellites, GPS satellites, Hubble space telescope, Herschel space telescope, the probes around Mars taking those excellent photos, the landers learning about the real story on Mars, maybe probes down the road proving once and for all there is life on Mars and maybe moons of Jupiter, Saturn and the like.
C, and that's my final answer.
One big reason to have a presence in space besides the stuff I just mentioned:
It is pretty sure a big asss asteroid killed the dinosaurs 65 million years ago, with caveats about that asteroid not causing world wide fires and such but delivering a killing blow to an already dying species at the very least. What do you think would happen to modern man if one hit say, downtown NYC, or London, or Paris, or Moscow? Or the middle of the pacific a thousand miles away from anything?
I think you have sufficient imagination to run with that concept. We as a human race, now have or shortly will have, the ability to deflect incoming monsters like the one 65 million years ago and keep it from hitting the Earth, thus keeping us around in spite of the whims of a non-caring universe. If we avoid that bullet from an incoming, all the money spent by all the countries on Earth over the last 100 years on space travel will have been well worth it. To speak of nothing of the first part of my argument. I think your thrust is against manned expeditions to the moon or Mars if I get it right. That is still a small part of the world wide space budget.