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I don't think that it's good to give preferential treatment to the rich and trap those who have less money here on Earth. Have any of you read Thomas Pain's "Common Sense"?
"But it's the wealthy paving the way, in a sense. They pay big bucks now, creating (or showing) a demand on the market, so that enterpreneurs will start offering competing 'solutions', and you know: competition brings prices down... leading to more people that can afford it, so more demand, more 'solutions' etc.
At least hat's the theory."
What if it doesn't happen the way you say it might? Then what?
Space exploration shouldn't be only for the welathy elite. If it was, then not that many people would support it. It would fade away as more people heard of it but couldn't afford it. Then they would stop paying for space exploration altogether. I think that eventually people would get pissed off at space exploration becuase it would become a program where people don't earn enough merit to go into space but would just be able to bribe their way into space.
I don't think that space exploration should be just for the Aristocrats. Look what happened to Science in ancient Athens when democracy began to crumble becuase it was only the rich people who people thought were the only ones able to do science in their leisure time. After that Athens ceased to be a democracy. I don't support it if it's only going to be for the billionairs.
The windows that filter out ultraviolet light right here on earth might not be sensitive to the amount of ultraviolet light in space because there might be a difference in the amount of solar ultraviolet light in orbit compared to the amount that gets down here on earth.
Does anyone in here think that String Theory is correct? String Theorists claim that a single equation could explain all the forces of nature by using one dimensional closed loops "or strings" to represent different forces of nature. I think that if you can find the energy of a particular type of string, you can release some of that energy and use it for who knows what if string theory or M theory is correct. I hope that they come up with some expirement to prove these two theories.
For better or worse, many in America believe the ISS debacle is precisely because of international cooperation. And that without the Soviets, and JFK's desire to prove America's (technology) was - - ahem - - bigger, Apollo never would have happened.
Elsewhere clark gave a link to a transcript of JFK in the Oval Office saying "landing on the Moon was simply too expensive - - except in the context of showing up the Soviets."
Sad? Sure. But true.
Apollo was funded to show the Soviets who was boss, technologically speaking. NO scientists went to the Moon until the final Apollo mission. Only ONE scientist has ever walked on the moon, right?
I think that it wouldn't have been expensive if both the Soviets and the Americans worked together to put people on the moon. Maybe by now there would be moon bases and colonies if both nations contributed money and resources.
I think that instead of competing, China and the Esa and the United States should work together in a space mission that could involve all of humanity instead of starting a kind of "Cold War" between different nations. I think that they probably stopped the lunar program because there wasn't enough interest in it because too many people wanted to beat the Russians into space.
Maybe we can place a space probe in orbit around the sun in that zone between Mars and Earth. Then we could probably forcast the space weather there better.
If they discover gravitons using particle accelerators, then a way could be found to produce them artificially and then a device could be invented that would produce gravitons for artificial gravity and for other scientific purposes.
Maybe a probe could be launched on the way to Mars to measure the amount of radiation in order to determine the exact amount of radiation that's between Earth and Mars orbit. That would probably correct the New York Times' charts of the amounts of radiation.
What's going to be done about the issue of gravity on the mission to Mars? Could people use the theoretical particle "the graviton" to produce artificial gravity in some way in order to make things easier for the astronauts going to mars? Could some graviton generator be made?
Why does the President want to plan a mission to the moon?
How much money will all these projects cost? I bet it
's less than the 87 billion dollars that the government wants to spend on Iraq's reconstruction or Earth Penetrating nucks. I think that spending money on space exploration is better than spending it on war.
I was just watching Msnbc and they were talking about Bush's Moon plan and they said that it might help the economy. They probably think that the moon is like training for going to Mars.
How would a President get an entire nation to go back to the moon?
This doesn't mean that it will happen. It's kind of like the President's thing about hydrogen powered cars. Hydrogen powered cars are not practical right now.
I just found this website. It's about using ultraviolet light to kill germs. http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99994427
I'm talking about using windows that filter out ultravioltet light on the Space Shuttle or Future manned spacecraft. I'm not talking about using it down here on earth.
I'd just like to know what's going to be done about the problem that astronauts have with the sun's ultraviolet light. I heard that it can be dangerous to be near the window of a space shuttle or something when it's exposed to the sun. Can't a window be designed for the space shuttle that can fliter out the ultraviolet light and any other radiation that can harm the humans in the spacecraft and still hold in the same atmospheric pressure that we feel on earth? Please reply.
If a nation or a world government forms on Mars, will they want to govern themselves using a representative form of government where the people elect their leaders and the leaders work for them? Will they use computer networks to attend something like a congressional meeting to try to decide what they want to have done with representatives from many different colonies meeting in a single building or habitat? Or would they want a different form of government? I think that most of the colonists on Mars will want to be seperate from a central government because they might want to escape polotical, social and economic problems on Earth. Also, with online voting becoming a reality even though a network or computers are connected to many diffrent places where people go to the polls and elect their leaders, there's always the possiblity of someone hacking into the network and changing the votes or seeing who voted for which leader or completely deleting the votes altogether perhaps with a computer virus. Does anyone think these sorts of problems will affect future martian colonies?
Should transportation be free on Mars?
"Mars is one of the options being considered by Congress and the administration. A Russian-American moon base is also being investigated. The future of the space program will probably be an international effort, and it will hopefully have some greater goal in mind. Several prominent congressmen have expressed their desire for NASA to move on to exciting goals beyond earth orbit, and the administration is hearing them out."
I think it's good that the government is finally considering a Human Mars mission. It's about time they started thinking about human space exploration beyond "Low Earth Orbit".
I heard from an AIP fyi that Congress was talking about a Mars mission. Was the information authentic?
I was just reading the book "Carl Sagan's Universe" and I saw in there when they were discussing the Russian's space program that they were planning to send a human expidition to mars. They were in the planning stage in 1988. They said in that book that they had the technology to do it. It never got done.