Nasa needs more funding.

[AdinX]

you are the stupidest motherforgeter alive

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budget_of_NASA#Public_perception

Feel free to explain why you linked that. I can assume a lot of reasons, but I'm sure you have one in specific. Enlighten me.

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[Mega-Bear]

Feel free to explain why you linked that. I can assume a lot of reasons, but I'm sure you have one in specific. Enlighten me.

Because NASA isn't draining as much money as you seem to think it is.

[!Trinick]

Because NASA isn't draining as much money as you seem to think it is.

He gave exact statistics -- he knows exactly how much money NASA is spending..

[dkamm65]

I would rather see defense get it than NASA. I could really care less where the money DOES go, so long as NASA is out of the picture. You mean "couldn't care less". I don't know why you hate NASA so much.

Once again, I would rather see  the money go elsewhere over NASA. Same as above.

Jobs created by the mars mission: 7,000 |VS| Jobs created by US armed forces: 2.4~ million. The military is expensive to take care of because it includes A LOT OF PEOPLE AND EQUIPMENT It costs so much to maintain cause we keep throwing money into expanding it. Our army is WAY bigger than it needs to be. If the USA would stop sticking its fat hands into every other countries affairs, we wouldn't need that big of an army.

Regardless of how much is caused, it's still a factor. I'll take the negligible effects of launching a shuttle over our army bombing the forget out of innocent people in the Middle East.

Also:

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

And:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=7i2QDpGRQKc#t=32s

And:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_F3pw5F_Pc

And:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xhc25v0DpJc

He gave exact statistics -- he knows exactly how much money NASA is spending..

But he seems to think NASA is getting too much and defense isn't getting enough.

He also seems to think that cutting 0.5% of the budget is going to magically fix the deficit. NASA isn't the problem.

[Thé Lord Tony]

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.

There is NO LIFE IN SPACE until about millions and millions and millions of light years away that we will never be able to see first hand. Not in this life time and not in the next life time not even 2,000 years away.

The chance of nasa finding life out there is about 0.5%

[!Trinick]

But he seems to think NASA is getting too much and defense isn't getting enough.

He also seems to think that cutting 0.5% of the budget is going to magically fix the deficit. NASA isn't the problem.

Yeah, I didn't say he's not stupid. I said he understands how much of the budget is going to NASA. He clearly thinks any amount is too much, he wants it privatized. Unfortunately, we live in America, so I'm actually happier with my taxes going to NASA than I am with them going to some other bullstuff. So, as long as it's not causing tax increases (which it's not), I'm perfectly fine with NASA existing. What I disagree with him on is the defense budget. That stuff needs to be lowered. That's our real problem.

[Thé Lord Tony]

We must not live in space. :I

What the forget are we then?

I'm clearly not talking about us. In this solar system the only life that exists here is on earth. There may be life in space out there but it's millions of years away and Nasa is wasting time on trying to find it.

They should had used up all this time to colonize the moon or mars by now instead of just loving around.

[TheChaosCarrier]

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

okay
go to a pool and swim to the very bottom of the 12ft deep end. sit there for about 5 seconds.

feel that pressure? yeah multiply that by like, 1000.
it's pretty hard to get stuff down there, much less a human being, without it being crushed into oblivion.

[!Trinick]

I'm clearly not talking about us. In this solar system the only life that exists here is on earth. There may be life in space out there but it's millions of years away and Nasa is wasting time on trying to find it.

NASA isn't trying to find life as much as it is trying to find the basic ingredients for life.

[TheChaosCarrier]

Tony is so uninformed it isn't even funny

[Thé Lord Tony]

NASA isn't trying to find life as much as it is trying to find the basic ingredients for life.

That would be IN THE WATER!

Mars has dried up river deposits up there. If there were any life on mars it's dead by now because there is no loving water. The entire planet of mars looks like a nuclear warzone.

[Mega-Bear]

He gave exact statistics -- he knows exactly how much money NASA is spending..

I phrased that wrong, sorry.

That would be IN THE WATER!

Mars has dried up river deposits up there. If there were any life on mars it's dead by now because there is no loving water. The entire planet of mars looks like a nuclear warzone.

Well yeah but there could have been microbiological life there in the past. Even if we don't find any fossilized cells on Mars there's still a wealth of knowledge to be learned about its history and geology.

[Oasis]

That would be IN THE WATER!

Mars has dried up river deposits up there. If there were any life on mars it's dead by now because there is no loving water. The entire planet of mars looks like a nuclear warzone.

So it's a waste searching for the unknown?

[sir dooble]

okay
go to a pool and swim to the very bottom of the 12ft deep end. sit there for about 5 seconds.

feel that pressure? yeah multiply that by like, 1000.
it's pretty hard to get stuff down there, much less a human being, without it being crushed into oblivion.

That's one of the reasons why we should go down there though.
We know for a fact that at extreme pressures there are organisms living there at this moment in time.
Researching them and studying how the survive these pressures could help us to design stronger materials capable of withstanding much greater pressures.

This is obviously all speculatory that we could synthesise things based on these studies, but it could lead to improvments in industry (industrial production with chemical reactions at intense pressures would be possible), improvments in Oceanic research/construction (consider sub-aqueous oil-drills and other such buildings) and even in space exploration itself.

If we ever wanted to go to high-pressure planets (I'm not thinking Jupiter here, by the way), then we'd need to find a way to design things that can withstand that pressure.

[Menen]

There is NO LIFE IN SPACE until about millions and millions and millions of light years away that we will never be able to see first hand. Not in this life time and not in the next life time not even 2,000 years away.

The chance of nasa finding life out there is about 0.5%

57% of statistics are made up.

Where are you getting your information?

How do you KNOW that there isnt life for several hundred million lightyears away? Did the aliens call you and say "Oh, hey Tony. Can you tell the human race that we will never see them ever?"