Space Projects Vs. Starvation - An [ms] debate...

[res0nat0r]

Re: Curiosity has landed

^there is still a lot of money and a lot of people trying to fix problems here on earth, so that isn't being ignored....

[bobjuice]

Re: Curiosity has landed

The more i look at the pics, the more i think it really is in Australia anyways.

I hear you Kamal about the adventure and the discovery and the quest for knowledge. But do you not think a little more effort righting the wrongs we create on Earth would be in order before jetting off to fuck somewhere else up?
I take your analogy of the holiday but would you go on holiday while your kids were starving at home?

[Kamal]

Re: Curiosity has landed

Yeah me too, wouldn't have cost anywhere near as much and they may have got some information that was actually usable in the real world.

Being an astronomy buff, someone once asked me, why would you spend Billions of Dollars to go to a Rocky Dusty Planet where there's nothing there, I asked them the same question in a different way, why would you spend Thousands of Dollars of your own hard earned money and go sit by the sea and stare at it or go stand to the edge of a beautiful waterfall, just to watch the water drop.

It's the same fundamental (other than taking a holiday) i.e. fulfill your sense of discovery and adventure. Of course when the budget is so much greater, there's a lot farther you can go with it.

Moreover, reading the statement "got some information that was actually usable in the real world.", well that tells me one of 2 things, what they have found and bought back on previous missions was of little / no interest to you or you haven't taken a holiday in a really long time

[nick007]

Re: Curiosity has landed

^was this your "good friend"?

[bobjuice]

Re: Curiosity has landed

I once had a "good friend" who was a record breaking goat on a skateboard. Awesome!!!

[trick12]

Re: Curiosity has landed

unreal.... simply unreal what we are now capable of.

[DIDI]

Re: Curiosity has landed

First full color image:



Not very exciting.

[DIDI]

Re: Curiosity has landed

Yeah me too, wouldn't have cost anywhere near as much and they may have got some information that was actually usable in the real world.

Australians definitely drink tea, probably all those english convicts in our past .

[Kamal]

Re: Curiosity has landed

Australians drink tea? Maybe they should've sent curiosity down-under on a Trivia and fun-fact gathering mission. I'd drink to that.

[DIDI]

Re: Curiosity has landed

^^^ I would drink to that

[bobjuice]

unreal.... simply unreal what we are now capable of.

I'd much rather someone made a teapot that doesn't drip