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[NEWS] nasa eyes urstar fish for missions in 2030s
Punished Toxicology:
LOL NASA IS GAY
Planr:
I wish we had better spacegoing technology so we could actually travel there ourselves and build space stations n stuff. Would be awesome.
What Seventh tapped on is important. While we may not be able to physically go to Neptune and Urstar fish right now ourselves, sending probes there will help give us preliminary data that gives us a better understanding of what they are like so we can not only figure out what's there that we could benefit from resource and location-wise, but what we will need to bring with us to be ready for the journey there some day.
Nonnel:
maybe we could reallocate some of the ridiculous military fund to research
SeventhSandwich:
--- Quote from: Planr on June 18, 2017, 05:10:31 PM ---I wish we had better spacegoing technology so we could actually travel there ourselves and build space stations n stuff. Would be awesome.
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It's on the horizon. Strictly speaking, sending people to Mars is pretty much a scientific necessity if we want to really know the planet's history and whether there is/has been life there. Rovers are great and all, but one person on the planet could do an equivalent amount of science in probably a month's time.
I'm waiting for the day when international organizations make it such that people don't feel the need to spend hundreds of billions on defense anymore, so we can invest that money into stuff like NASA. If we were to double their budget right now, we'd probably have a complete road map for a Mars mission already laid out.
--- Quote from: Nonnel on June 18, 2017, 05:14:55 PM ---maybe we could reallocate some of the ridiculous military fund to research
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It's a double-edged sword. Military spending does produce spin-off technologies in the same way that NASA does. It's just that nothing really gets the jingoistic fever of an overweight congressman going more than a nice missile or aircraft carrier. Same can't be said about better space tech :(
Planr:
I'm only interested in science as far as it allows us to get cool stuff and have cool homes in cool places.
--- Quote from: SeventhSandwich on June 18, 2017, 05:14:58 PM ---It's a double-edged sword. Military spending does produce spin-off technologies in the same way that NASA does. It's just that nothing really gets the jingoistic fever of an overweight congressman going more than a nice missile or aircraft carrier. Same can't be said about better space tech :(
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I'm willing to bet that had we not undergone the rapid technological advancements that came as a side effect of World War II, our current level of technology would be on par with the 1970s or 1980s.