Rocket To Mars ?......Why ?

[protectionist]

IKR? Why don't you protest space exploration and throw away your computer, phone, water filtration, your scratch resistance lenses and you better not ever get a cat scan!

Already answered in post # 17.

Any scientific endevour would have created ancillary benefits (and probably much more useful ones)

 

[protectionist]

Any money spent on space exploration is money well invested. Unlike the money wasted on entitlement programs.

"well invested" ? HOW ? What's the benefit (as opposed to REAL benefits from other spending)

 

[Manonthestreet]

ISnt Bezos going to Mars in his Blue origin rocket??

 

[Darkwind]

I have to agree with one thing. We cannot afford this at this time.

The good news is that the private sector is stepping up and we should form some kind of symbiote with the private sector and encourage these entrepreneurs to set their sights on Mars.

Of course, we could leave government out of it completely and make the entire thing a private venture and that would mean those who colonize Mars won't have to pay Earth any taxes or send any resources.

 

[Manonthestreet]

I'd prefer to set up a working moonbase.

 

[protectionist]

with space exploration comes advances in Engineering,Physics and many other sciences.....and its kinda pointless after all we have done so far to just stop,like we did with the Moon,we should already have a Base up there.....and as far as spending money,the more Countries we ask to join us the less we spend.......

Already refuted in Posts # 17. 19. and 21.

 

[Darkwind]

Any money spent on space exploration is money well invested. Unlike the money wasted on entitlement programs.

"well invested" ? HOW ? What's the benefit (as opposed to REAL benefits from other spending)

Seriously?

Just about every advancement in technology and many in medicine are from our exploration of space.

 

[protectionist]

The same advances would come as spinoffs from a practical goal down here on Earth,.

Of course. Strange how star trekkies don't think of this.

 

[protectionist]

Seriously?

Just about every advancement in technology and many in medicine are from our exploration of space.

Nonsense. We got SOME advancements, but you are exaggerating. By far, most advancements in science and technology came long before space exploration started , or even the invention of airplanes.

Sounds like the space freaks have got you programmed.

 

[protectionist]

I have to agree with one thing. We cannot afford this at this time.

The good news is that the private sector is stepping up and we should form some kind of symbiote with the private sector and encourage these entrepreneurs to set their sights on Mars.

Of course, we could leave government out of it completely and make the entire thing a private venture and that would mean those who colonize Mars won't have to pay Earth any taxes or send any resources.

If private interests want to blow big money on something like this, with little or no gain in sight, let them do it. But not on MY dime.

 

[Harry Dresden]

Does anybody know why the Trump Administration thinks it to be a good idea to spend Billions$$ of our tax dollars, sending a rocket to Mars ? What could be the gain from an investment like that ? This is an important question since we're talking about a lot of money going out, when we have a $19 Trillion debt, and lots of other things needing money.

What makes this thing even more odd, is that at the same time this was planned, Trump was planning to cut the Coast Guard's budget by $1.3 Billion, which thankfully that bad idea has been scrapped, and the Coast Guard will now receive its full budget.

Feel free to input your top 2 suggestions of how else the Mars mission money could/should be better spent. There probably are hundreds of these.

with space exploration comes advances in Engineering,Physics and many other sciences.....and its kinda pointless after all we have done so far to just stop,like we did with the Moon,we should already have a Base up there.....and as far as spending money,the more Countries we ask to join us the less we spend.......

Doubling Mankind's Prosperity

The same advances would come as spinoffs from a practical goal down here on Earth,such as developing the immense natural resources of Antarctica.

i disagree....getting a vehical to an object 140 million miles away and then land on it and hopefully take off is a much greater feat....and the advances in engineering and physics and communications and other things would be immense......

 

[Harry Dresden]

with space exploration comes advances in Engineering,Physics and many other sciences.....and its kinda pointless after all we have done so far to just stop,like we did with the Moon,we should already have a Base up there.....and as far as spending money,the more Countries we ask to join us the less we spend.......

Already refuted in Posts # 17. 19. and 21.

by who you?.....

 

[protectionist]

i disagree....getting a vehical to an object 140 million miles away and then land on it and hopefully take off is a much greater feat....and the advances in engineering and physics and communications and other things would be immense......

Yeah ? LIke WHAT ? (in comparison to finding a cure for cancer and multiple sclerosis - and maybe even for such birth defect ailments like musculaar dystrophy or cebebral palsy)

Hell I think more police, firefighters, and spay/nueter clinics for homeless cats is more important.

 

[protectionist]

by who you?.....

Yeah ME.

 

[protectionist]

I'd prefer to set up a working moonbase.

For what reason ? For what benefit ? (and to whom ?)

 

[Harry Dresden]

Because we never fail to gain scientific knowledge and technological advances from space exploration.

This is the most common (and flimsy) excuse for space exploration. ho hum. You haven't heard the billion of times answer to this ?

"scientific knowledge and technological advances" (spinoffs) can come from ANY type of scientific endevour. Why not spend the money in a more useful manner (stem cell research, cure for cancer, multiple sclerosis , etc)

we can do both.....there is so much waste and fraud in many projects.....get rid of the waste and fraud and there is plenty of money....

 

[Harry Dresden]

by who you?.....

Yeah ME.

oh ok....i thought maybe it was some scientific panel or something....i feel better now....

 

[protectionist]

we can do both.....there is so much waste and fraud in many projects.....get rid of the waste and fraud and there is plenty of money....

The space (interplanetary) program is part of the waste. And 38 posts into this thread, no one has yet answered the title question. Not hardly.

 

[OldLady]

Does anybody know why the Trump Administration thinks it to be a good idea to spend Billions$$ of our tax dollars, sending a rocket to Mars ? What could be the gain from an investment like that ? This is an important question since we're talking about a lot of money going out, when we have a $19 Trillion debt, and lots of other things needing money.

What makes this thing even more odd, is that at the same time this was planned, Trump was planning to cut the Coast Guard's budget by $1.3 Billion, which thankfully that bad idea has been scrapped, and the Coast Guard will now receive its full budget.

Feel free to input your top 2 suggestions of how else the Mars mission money could/should be better spent. There probably are hundreds of these.

It's some sort of top secret technology involved in that Mars landing. Military could tell you, but they won't.

 

[protectionist]

oh ok....i thought maybe it was some scientific panel or something....i feel better now....

A common sense question only requires a common sense answer - not a "scientific panel or something"