What's your stance on space travel?

[acri1]

First off, please miss this thread with conspiracy theories about fake moon landings or flat earth.


That said, do you think it's worthwhile for governments to spend money on it? Contrary to what some people believe, the reasons we haven't been back to the moon in decades are entirely political. Basically it's very expensive and doesn't have an obvious ROI, so nobody really wants to pay for it.


And you could maybe make that argument about space travel in general. It IS very expensive and maybe governments should focus on more pressing issues like healthcare and climate change. On the other hand, space travel has often led to the development of new technology even when it wasn't obvious at the time -

NASA spinoff technologies - Wikipedia

There's also talk of a moon base and even sending people to Mars, but it goes without saying that any of that would be extremely expensive and take decades to do, and many people alive right now wouldn't live to see the results. Still, science can't advance if nobody invests in it.


So should governments invest in space travel or not?

 

[AnonymityX1000]

They should use some of the military budget for it and if you are a private organization wanting to do so have at it. Otherwise yeah, there are more pressing issues.

 

[OfTheCross]

Can we continue to invest in R&D w/o going to space?

Ain't shyt for us out there, breh. Let's fix Earth

 

[hashmander]

unless they're actually going to find us a planet that we can move to they need to worry about this one.

 

[NkrumahWasRight Is Wrong]

More pressing issues at the moment

 

[Secure Da Bag]

Yes. There's no reason not to.

 

[Poetical Poltergeist]

I'm for exploring space. You damn well know the galaxy can't wait for such a delightful species like ourselves to arrive.

 

[MasterOfAllHeSurveyz]

We don't spend enough. NASA's budget is less than one half of one percent of the Fed Budget.

 

[dora_da_destroyer]

Should be privately financed at this point. If govt wants to chip in via grant like they do with other research, cool, but there is enough private money to fund it. People also need to realize it should be an international coordinated effort, there’s no glory in trying to do this alone in each country, it’s such a daunting thing to take on, this is about us as humans learning more, not planting Russian, Chinese, American flags.

 

[Hood Critic]

Should be privately financed at this point. If govt wants to chip in via grant like they do with other research, cool, but there is enough private money to fund it. People also need to realize it should be an international coordinated effort, there’s no glory in trying to do this alone in each country, it’s such a daunting thing to take on, this is about us as humans learning more, not planting Russian, Chinese, American flags.

I agree, space exploration should be a part of the UN platform much like climate change.

 

[Secure Da Bag]

I agree, space exploration should be a part of the UN platform much like climate change.

Yeah, that's barely working as it is. Plus, with the UN going into African and black majority countries and outright stealing their resources, I'd rather it just be a national effort for right now.

 

[Cuban Pete]

Cleaning up earth and making it an asteroid proof home planet with mad defensive satellites in our orbit makes a lil more sense to me then leaving Earth flimsy on defense and traveling to a barren planet or even caring about anything outside our immediate range

Cacs planning on leaving everyone behind

 

[mc_brew]

put me down for a hell yes we should invest in space travel.... there's an entire universe out there and we're all crammed together on this tiny marble....

 

[analog]

Space exploration to better understand this Universe we're in I fully support.

But spending money to inhabit other planets? Nah, I'd rather we invest that money to improve the living conditions for those living on this planet.

 

[Strapped]

Waste of money unless they plan on anchoring a building on the moon