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[NEWS] nasa eyes urstar fish for missions in 2030s
SeventhSandwich:
--- Quote from: beachbum111111 on June 18, 2017, 06:12:33 PM ---See if we were allowed to militarize space tech this wouldn't be a problem. But no cold war era laws get in the way of that. I hope your looking forward too never seeing us colonize another planet
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If this is satire like I think it is, then you're spot-on lol.
--- Quote from: Drydess on June 18, 2017, 06:15:12 PM --- man if we could militarize space tech and someone decided it would be a good idea to shoot someone else's satellite, there'd be a metric assload of debris in orbit of us
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A kessler syndrome scenario would basically render us incapable of ever leaving Earth, unless we can come up with some sort of ship that's resistant to 20,000mph missiles flying around everywhere.
Deus Ex:
--- 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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That'd be nice
Maybe after we don't have to spend money defending other countries while they bolster their own social programs we can change up the military budget
That's wishful thinking though, knowing our gov't the military budget will always be bloated
Juncoph:
--- Quote from: SeventhSandwich on June 18, 2017, 02:54:40 PM ---it's also virtually impossible, in terms of engineering, to make a vehicle that goes to Urstar fish and captures methane from the atmosphere, escapes the planet's gravity well, and then returns back to Earth, having gathered enough fuel to make the entire trip economically worthwhile.
asteroid mining and stuff seems cool but I have virtually no faith that we will ever see commercial resource gathering in space. It is simply too expensive to put things in space, and there's no known way to take things super heavy and return them to the surface without them exploding.
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that wasn't the point i was addressing
--- Quote from: thegoodperry on June 18, 2017, 03:16:26 PM ---WW2 brought several new technologies, including nuclear power and aircraft technology, but that doesn't mean that the war was a good thing. Spending billions of dollars to build spacecraft and fuel for it to fly around and gather information is a waste of money. It'd be better spent actually building the new technologies like the list of things NASA built, not funding a useless mission that will sprout technologies as an accidental biproduct
I guess in the name of discovery, checking out urstar fish is a good thing, but at this exact moment we don't have any need for methane or anything urstar fish can provide. Even though it can fuel things like cars, the combustion isn't complete enough for it to be sustainable, and that money that could be spent on gathering methane can be better spent on developing more sustainable and cleaner energy options. In the end, it's an objective waste of money. It does provide some profit and gain, but the amount spent on gathering it is far greater than what's being returned
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are you really comparing a science organization to ww2