I'm for a system where the govt fronts 50-80% of the costs, and the rest comes from private funding, depending on the aims of the specific mission
What's your stance on space travel?
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The argument that "there are problems here so we should focus on that first" is a dismissive one. There will always be social and terrestrial dilemmas worth addressing and that argument frames it as being an either or scenario..
I don't know what the fair ratio of government to private spending should be but I'm definitely of the camp that space exploration and technology is woefully underfunded. And few things capture my attention more than astronomy in general.
I don't know what the fair ratio of government to private spending should be but I'm definitely of the camp that space exploration and technology is woefully underfunded. And few things capture my attention more than astronomy in general.
feelosofer
#ninergang
Yes we should fund it, we are years behind where we should be on this front.
Act like the government haven’t invested in space travel but can’t go beyond the moon because the galactic community put a sanction on humans and relegated them to earth brehsFirst 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?
They won't take black people but they sure as hell would give em away.
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Master Baker
where should we be?
there's a diminishing return here. IMO space exploration should be about - looking for other forms of life, mining resources (either things we have here and need more of or finding new elements we may have use for), or searching for a new planet that we could expand to. given technical limitations and the vastness of space, options one and three are waste of govt dollars, especially #3 when taking into account physical limitations of humans and the fact there would be some racial/ethnic bias in access to a new planet. only the second option seems worth putting money into, but even that scares me as i fully expect cacs to be demonic in that regard - would be on some Avatar shyt.
i'm infatuated with space and would love for us to learn more or have breakthroughs, but there's not much we can act on in regards to it. can't survive out in it, can't beat physics to overcome the distances and time required to reach other places, and i believe the universe spaced out different life forms knowing that there's no need for them to cross paths...just what would we be investing in?
edit: and i get tech advances that happen as a byproduct of investing in/studying space tech, but why not just spend money purposely trying to solve those problems.
mc_brew
#NotMyPresident
woo hoo... we've gotten to 50%.... we can now pass legislation through the higher learning senate to fund space travel... yay!