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We don't know what we'll find. Or what we will learn. Or what technology we will develop along the way. Most of science is like that. You're proceeding to the unknown. You cannot know exactly what you will find. Predicting it and judging investment based on a hypothetical hoped for goal is folly.
We don't know what we'll find. Or what we will learn. Or what technology we will develop along the way. Most of science is like that. You're proceeding to the unknown. You cannot know exactly what you will find. Predicting it and judging investment based on a hypothetical hoped for goal is folly.
It seems to me like science makes advances off the known body of work, they don't build a massive industry at great expense and risk on the off chance that there's maybe something useful, possibly. The voyages of discovery were an outgrowth of an established shipping industry. They didn't send the first ship with a keel across the Atlantic or Pacific on the off-chance there was something to gain.
What you can do is make steady progress. And if we want to go to Mars, or more interestingly, Europa, Titan, Callisto and Enceladus, we need to start with the Moon.
See above, re: the moon. My question is what is the value of going out there and the only answer I am getting is "to go further out there." Why go to this horrible place? "Why it's a stepping stone to something worse!"Flex long unused muscles. See what we can improve, perhaps set up a moon base for interplantery travel... All that is helpful for our future.
People said the same thing about alchemy, phrenology & eugenics, too.
As a species, we seem pathologically incapable of solving global warming. In reaching for other planets, maybe we'll find a way to let a small part of us survive. Seems a good enough reason to try.
Give how much land area on the planet is going unused because its too damn cold, I'm willing to give global warming a chance. You do realize that the only continent worth living on tapers southward, right? The state in the union with the most land area is the northernmost by far. Also, better global warming than cooling, because there are fewer Canadians to get rid of if we have to expand to get the newly valuable land.
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“Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.” GK Chesteron
Inde muagdhe Aes Sedai misain ye!
Deus Vult!
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“Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.” GK Chesteron
Inde muagdhe Aes Sedai misain ye!
Deus Vult!
*MySmiley*
Heading back to the Moon!
- 26/03/2019 08:32:52 PM
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Why?
- 26/03/2019 10:24:51 PM
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A few reasons.
- 27/03/2019 04:17:56 PM
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? We'll see. *NM*