Starbeast
Benevolent Galaxy Being
So, is there anything interesting on Mars besides dirt, rocks and frozen water?
So, is there anything interesting on Mars besides dirt, rocks and frozen water?
There might be. How do you suggest we find out?
They've been roaming Mars with rovers since the late 1990's.
They've covered an area considerably smaller than the Isle of Wight.
We have to wait for NASA to tell us. They've been roaming Mars with rovers since the late 1990's. Not to mention mapping the surface for a while too.
I'm surprised there aren't more close-up photos of Mars, most of the stuff they release is all computer grenerated. They tell us they do that so we can see more detail.
Current space exploration is very boring to me.
What if Columbus had come to the new world, looked around,and returned to Europe and nobody ever went back or thought much of it?
What if Columbus had come to the new world, looked around,and returned to Europe and nobody ever went back or thought much of it?
But the Vikings are confirmed to have been here before Columbus
Wrong. The images are NOT computer generated. They are color enhanced so THEY can see more detail, such as layers of rock how they would appear in Earth's light.
There is NOTHING our race can do that is more important than space exploration.
What if Columbus had come to the new world, looked around, and returned to Europe and nobody ever went back or thought much of it?
... Anyway, I don't believe I'll see any great advantages from space exploration that would effect me in my life time. That's why the subject doesn't interest me.
It's a vision, SB. Everyone needs a vision, to mitigate the mundane everyday existence on the planet Earth ...
You do know that is very debatable subject and fiercely disputed. There are many people who refute that NASA invented anything and claim it is simply other people trying to justify the huge expenditure on the Space Race and the military in general. They say that those items could have been invented anyway if that money had been spent in other ways. (I was always told that Teflon was a result of rocket cone technology, but a quick Google search proves it was around years before the Mercury programme.) Skim down that Wiki page halfway and there are other examples of mistakenly attributed spin-offs (some deliberately so.)And here are some technologies that grew from, or were improved by, space exploration, via NASA, including Light-emitting diodes, Infrared ear thermometers, Scratch-resistant Lenses, Aircraft anti-icing systems, Firefighting equipment, Temper foam, Water purification.
Burke contends that one cannot consider the development of any particular piece of the modern world in isolation. Rather, the entire gestalt of the modern world is the result of a web of interconnected events, each one consisting of a person or group acting for reasons of their own motivations (e.g. profit, curiosity, religious) with no concept of the final, modern result of what either their or their contemporaries' actions finally led to.
It's a vision, SB. Everyone needs a vision, to mitigate the mundane everyday existence on the planet Earth ...
I firmly believe Space Exploration is a good thing in its own right.
I firmly believe Space Exploration is a good thing in its own right.
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