Do U want to spend your tax $$$, so that NASA sends icedigger, to find life on Mars?

[gravity420]

NASA sends ice-digger to find life on Mars - Yahoo! News (http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070804/ts_alt_afp/usspaceastronomymars)

[Blitzed]

I believe this is wrong, the world is in a poor state, we shouldnt be worrying if there is a simple trace of life on some distant rock. If it is even possible for Mars to be livable, it would take millions of years for an atmosphere to develop. There for I think money should be going towards making this planet last longer.

[slipknotpsycho]

i'd by far rather our tax money go to useful things like space exploration or disease research then what it's being used for now....

what is our tax money being used for now?

for a war, that is not our own, even after the 'enemy' begged for us to stop...
to put 'criminals' in jail (by 'criminals' of course i mean BS like our drug laws, some others too)
to head up a company like FEMA and Homeland security, both of which are nearly useless when they are actually needed (need i mention katrina...)

and of course alot goes to useless trials, alot of which being 'celebrity trials'... michael jackson, oj simpson, paris hiltion, martha stewart... need i go on?

it's getting wasted any way you go about it.. atleast this way SOMETHING good might come of it.

and i don't really care what you have to say about my opinion it is my opinion you don't like what i said about the war or other issues, ignore it.... i won't even dignify it with a response....

[burnable]

I think NASA should be richly funded. If we're talking about what's best for society, a better understanding of the universe, and the possibility of other life will ultimately lead to the citizens of the world uniting and feeling like one common family, which would ease a lot of the problems we have domestically. Maybe the bar should be raised for the astronauts though:rolleyes:

[gravity420]

cures 4 diseases and improved standards of living should be taken care of,

space travel 2 mars iz retarded

[make it legal]

I love the idea of exploring space and beyond.

[rebgirl420]

Yeah id go for it. I think its important.

[TallCoolOne]

Spend money on education or health care? FUCK NO! lets spend it on travelling to other planets so we can do the same thing to it as we did to earth! great fucking idea!

Look For: An Inconvienient Truth Part II: Mars is Melting

[gravity420]

Yeah id go for it. I think its important.

please, enlighten me, as to why, you think its important.

[rebgirl420]

Bc we can learn alot about our own planets past and future by learning about other planets. You never know what we could find. Plus many of the planets out there have minerals that we dont or that were running out of that could possibly help us out greatly.To me its important to try to get as much information as we possibly can about our world and all the worlds out there.

[Anubis10012007]

let them come to me. i am open for going there, but not at the financial expense of our people.

[medicinal]

. "Maybe the bar should be raised for the astronauts though"
I agree, raise it so high they can't reach over it for the next drink ~LOL~. As far as the money used for space exploration, a total waste of money. Get our heads back on earth and clean up our own mess. This is the only planet in our solar system capable of supporting life in any quanity, lets spend the money on preserving it.

[LuckyG]

I've heard that with the annual budget for NASA you could solve the world hunger problem. I've also heard that the cost of one day of war in Iraq can do the same thing.

Space is awesome, but let its exploration be financed by independents, not by the country in general. I don't actually believe that we can learn very much about Earth by going to other totally different planets - that line of thinking is so backwards. Even if we did find minerals and such that we're running low on, it would cost billions of dollars and take decades to ship them back here. I'd rather money be spent on exploring the oceans, which are like 95% unexplored. Seeing as how they cover 70% of the Earth's surface, I'm sure there is a lot of stuff underwater that could be used to help us.

But then I'm Canadian, so I don't have to worry about how America spends its tax dollars. :cool:

[TallCoolOne]

But then I'm Canadian, so I don't have to worry about how America spends its tax dollars. :cool:

I wish *I* had your healthcare system.

[burnable]

I've heard that with the annual budget for NASA you could solve the world hunger problem. I've also heard that the cost of one day of war in Iraq can do the same thing.

Space is awesome, but let its exploration be financed by independents, not by the country in general. I don't actually believe that we can learn very much about Earth by going to other totally different planets - that line of thinking is so backwards. Even if we did find minerals and such that we're running low on, it would cost billions of dollars and take decades to ship them back here. I'd rather money be spent on exploring the oceans, which are like 95% unexplored. Seeing as how they cover 70% of the Earth's surface, I'm sure there is a lot of stuff underwater that could be used to help us.

But then I'm Canadian, so I don't have to worry about how America spends its tax dollars. :cool:



Perhaps u r right. I've just always kind of been an idealist when it comes to space. I was really impressed in Star Trek: First Contact because the first extra terrestrial intellects contacted earth when they sensed the signature from the first earth -made light-speed capable engine. Until then they were bound not to contact technologically inferior civilizations as it would interfere with their development.

My point is not that there are aliens overhead that are eager to see us catch up, but rather that our immediate space goal should be speed, not local exploration. We're not going to get much done in outer space until we can travel much faster that what is current, so I guess exploration funds might be diverted into research for a new paradigm of space travel.

I still maintain that collective awareness of the universe, especially if intelligent life is discovered, will result in many social negatives melting away, like petty economics and racism. The world will feel more united, and I think we'd appreciate the singularity of the planet more. I don't know if it would eventually yield a utopian, capital-less society like in Star Trek, but I continue to be an idealist

[Ganja Dude]

There are thousands of other intelligent life forms out there in the universe and I think that space exploration should be a top priority. Imagine what could be possible if we interact with these life forms. New technologies expecially which we are in desperate need of when it comes to energy.

[BrilloHeadBen]

With all of the technological advancements that have come from the space program, I can't imagine why we wouldn't want to have one.