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Cost Of Nasa
We now know (to great jubilation), that Pluto has a 'deep crater' and that these images received could be reproduced by micro/macro photographs of the Earth's surface.
Given the problems we face here, are the billions upon billions of taxpayer's money spent on achieving this warranted and if so why?
What benefits has humanity achieved from the space programme and are scientists being allowed to run amok?
Given the problems we face here, are the billions upon billions of taxpayer's money spent on achieving this warranted and if so why?
What benefits has humanity achieved from the space programme and are scientists being allowed to run amok?
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.Because the money spent is a drop in the ocean of the world's wealth, the result more than worth the cost, there will always be problems here on Earth, more than one thing can be funded at the same time, throwing space exploration funds away on other things would not achieve much anyway, and all this is surely obvious to folk ?
//What benefits has humanity achieved from the space programme //
Here are a few....
http:// www.nas a.gov/5 0th/50t h_magaz ine/ben efits.h tml
Space exploration is progress.
Here are a few....
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Space exploration is progress.
naomi; But that link comes from NASA itself!! Asking them is akin to asking a barber if you need a haircut.
The cost of NASA between 1958-2015 in total, amounts to $526.18 billion—an average of $9.928 billion per year.
For which we have non-stick frying pans and a robotic arm - which would have been invented (by the Japanese) anyway.
The cost of NASA between 1958-2015 in total, amounts to $526.18 billion—an average of $9.928 billion per year.
For which we have non-stick frying pans and a robotic arm - which would have been invented (by the Japanese) anyway.
Khandro, A quick google.
http:// science .howstu ffworks .com/in novatio n/nasa- inventi ons/nas a-break through s-in-me dicine. htm
Don't you welcome progress?
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Don't you welcome progress?
milvus;// let's add a couple of things we get from our use of satellites, like weather forecasting, communications, GPS //
Satellites were not invented by NASA, the first, called 'Sputnik' was a Russian invention, and the idea of using them as a global means of communication was first mooted by the science-fiction writer Arthur C Clarke as I remember.
I think exploration of the moon, which is after all part of our domain, was fair enough; and Ratter, it was from that project came the first pictures of Earth, beyond that it is all a tale of diminishing returns in a very big way and simply demonstrates how (some) scientists enjoy spending other people's money to no particular purpose other than self-gratification.
Satellites were not invented by NASA, the first, called 'Sputnik' was a Russian invention, and the idea of using them as a global means of communication was first mooted by the science-fiction writer Arthur C Clarke as I remember.
I think exploration of the moon, which is after all part of our domain, was fair enough; and Ratter, it was from that project came the first pictures of Earth, beyond that it is all a tale of diminishing returns in a very big way and simply demonstrates how (some) scientists enjoy spending other people's money to no particular purpose other than self-gratification.
Certainly the Russians launched Sputnik as the first orbiting satellite but to say the Russians "invented" the satellite is wrong. Parallel programmes were being run by the western world at least from 1946. The US launched their first sattellite 3 months after Sputnik on the date they had planned and published. Arthur C Clark certainly published the first article on the possible use of a satellite for mass communication, but going back much further it was Isaac Newton who first published a mathematical study of the possibility of an artificial satellite. Now, so much for history, what actually is your gripe. That the space programme at NASA is a waste and all else is fine or that all space programmes are a waste?