Nasa needs more funding.

[otto-san]

There is NO LIFE in space. We should be exploring the ocean, there is an entire universe down there just waiting to be explored.

yeah, we should do more ocean exploration.

problem is pressure though

it'd be cool if we had the technology

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[dkamm65]

The economic return for NASA is something like 14:1.

^

There is NO LIFE in space.

That we know of.

[RedGajin]

yeah, we should do more ocean exploration.

problem is pressure though

it'd be cool if we had the technology

if we can go to the loving moon we should be able to go to the bottom of a big bathtub

[dorkdotdan]

if we can go to the loving moon we should be able to go to the bottom of a big bathtub

hold your breath!

[Name is Unavailable]

There is NO LIFE in space. We should be exploring the ocean, there is an entire universe down there just waiting to be explored.

Based on what evidence? The fact that we haven't found any?
That's like taking a cup of water from the ocean and saying it's impossible for whales to exist because they're not in your cup.

[Nasoa]

NASA needs 850 quadrillion dollars to build the Death Star, unfortunately the Obama administration "does not support blowing up planets"

Don't see any other reason to go into space.

[Fredulus]

NASA's doing just fine with the funding they have. Though I wouldn't mind them getting a bit more. They're great at scientific missions - probes, landers on mars, things like that. They're absolutely HORRIBLE at designing their own launch vehicles. The space shuttle cost fortunes more than originally projected - and could only accomplish a tenth of the work originally projected, if that.

The federal government is, through NASA as an intermediary, giving private companies such as SpaceX small grants (relative to amounts of money sunk into failed programs such as the space shuttle) to develop their own launch vehicles and capsules. This is orders of magnitude more efficient than NASA doing it themselves, and will result in a varied, effective, and useful array of vehicles. Off the top of my head, companies developing their own launch vehicles/capsules include SpaceX, Boeing, ATK/Thiokol, Orbital Sciences or some such, and probably a few others I'm missing.

Virgin Galactic is also a joke. Sure, the flights get to space, but you don't even complete one full orbit. They're suborbital flights with a huge pricetag. Laughable.

As far as life in space, there's a very good chance there is microbial life beneath the surface of mars, as it used to be a warm planet with oceans of water much like earth, and liquid water could still exist under the surface. Liquid water is still occasionally found on the surface.

[AdinX]

There is NO LIFE in space. We should be exploring the ocean, there is an entire universe down there just waiting to be explored.

I'd like to explore your ocean.

OT: NASA never excited me, the private companies are 500000000x more exciting because you can actually see what they are doing. Like those self contained habitats with like self filtrating water and stuff, that was super cool IMO, I could really care less for how the ship can move 5,000,000 metric tons at the speed of a sneeze. The speed of the forgets I give are divisible by 0, so as to say: none

Tl;dr NASA is gay, I support private companies make parts and then conforming to make big spacey things. I also believe private companies within allied countries should work together to create the most efficient final product possible.

[Gojira]

There is NO LIFE in space.

PFFTHAHAHAHA
Oh wait
You're serious.
Let me laugh even harder!
BAHAHAHAHAAAAAAA

the odds against there being any sort of life in the universe besides us is so infinitesimally small it's not even considered.

[devildogelite]

I'd like to explore your ocean.

OT: NASA never excited me, the private companies are 500000000x more exciting because you can actually see what they are doing. Like those self contained habitats with like self filtrating water and stuff, that was super cool IMO, I could really care less for how the ship can move 5,000,000 metric tons at the speed of a sneeze. The speed of the forgets I give are divisible by 0, so as to say: none

Tl;dr NASA is gay, I support private companies make parts and then conforming to make big spacey things. I also believe private companies within allied countries should work together to create the most efficient final product possible.

You're a loving handicap, like jesus christ do you even have a brain. Holy stuff.


Nasa uses such a tiny fraction of the federal budget that cutting funding to NASA isn't going to do stuff for the debt. All of the benefit and research that NASA provides is far more valuable than the tiny budget they use.

[!Trinick]

Actually, funding space exploration is pretty loving expensive.

On the topic of there's no life in space, I find that incorrect. A far more acceptable answer is that there's no intelligent life in space. Life itself is an incredibly complex thing to be made, it more than likely does not exist in more than a few thousand places in our universe. To further that by saying all the exact proper changes were made perfectly to yield intelligent life is almost ridiculous. Our existence is actually one of the main proponents of the multiverse theory. It's so unlikely that intelligent life would exist that scientists think the only reason we exist is because there's an infinite number of universes out there where every possible path exists. I'm serious.

[Fredulus]

Actually, funding space exploration is pretty loving expensive.

On the topic of there's no life in space, I find that incorrect. A far more acceptable answer is that there's no intelligent life in space. Life itself is an incredibly complex thing to be made, it more than likely does not exist in more than a few thousand places in our universe. To further that by saying all the exact proper changes were made perfectly to yield intelligent life is almost ridiculous. Our existence is actually one of the main proponents of the multiverse theory. It's so unlikely that intelligent life would exist that scientists think the only reason we exist is because there's an infinite number of universes out there where every possible path exists. I'm serious.

lol

[AdinX]

You're a loving handicap, like jesus christ do you even have a brain. Holy stuff.


Nasa uses such a tiny fraction of the federal budget that cutting funding to NASA isn't going to do stuff for the debt. All of the benefit and research that NASA provides is far more valuable than the tiny budget they use.

forget you. Seriously, you are the biggest starfish on these forums that I have ever had to deal with, I honestly hope your post can count for random flaming just so you can be gone for a week at least. If you can't handle someone else's opinions then get the forget off your computer, cancel your Internet service and just do something at least half as richardish.

In reply;

Seen in the year-by-year breakdown listed below, the total amounts (in nominal dollars) that NASA has been budgeted from 1958 to 2011 amounts to $526.18 billion dollars—an average of $9.928 billion per year.

That's 526 billion that could have gone to things like the economy or military purposes, instead of 135 space launches over the course of 63 years. And let's not forget the environmental issues that come along with it, because

it’s hard to argue that any vehicle that produces 37 million horsepower by burning five tons of super-cooled propellant each second, using as much energy as a single American in his or her entire lifetime, can be “green.”

I wish these forums had a mute button, just so I could spam the stuff out of it every time I saw your username.

[Mega-Bear]

Space: The Forum's Final Argument.

[blueblur121]

forget you. Seriously, you are the biggest starfish on these forums that I have ever had to deal with, I honestly hope your post can count for random flaming just so you can be gone for a week at least. If you can't handle someone else's opinions then get the forget off your computer, cancel your Internet service and just do something at least half as richardish.

In reply;That's 526 billion that could have gone to things like the economy or military purposes, instead of 135 space launches over the course of 63 years. And let's not forget the environmental issues that come along with it, because
I wish these forums had a mute button, just so I could spam the stuff out of it every time I saw your username.

You are being mean to people. :(