Successful Landing on Mars!

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Originally Posted by Don

Hey Y'all! The first pictures are in:

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Noooo wayyy, there he is!

wast of time and money.. who cares what could have been there,,,,, whats there now? dust. The biggest thing that has been done by NASA is the moon landing, and what has that got us, dust... How about spending the effort in the ocean. There are living things there, and water.....
spooky

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Originally Posted by mr.spooky

wast of time and money.. who cares what could have been there,,,,, whats there now? dust. The biggest thing that has been done by NASA is the moon landing, and what has that got us, dust... How about spending the effort in the ocean. There are living things there, and water.....
spooky

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Well, for one thing that temp gun you use to check temperatures in your snake racks came directly from a NASA invention. There are many more inventions and innovations that came from the space program that improved the daily lives of millions of people. Here are a few articles that mention the things that have come out of our space program:

http://curiosity.discovery.com/topic...inventions.htm

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/s...nventions.html

And, those are just a few. The space program didn't just improve the lives of millions, but saved lives. If you did not click on those links, CAT scan was one of the inventions that came out of NASA. From that, obviously came the MRI.

I understand why people see it as a waste of money, but I find that most of those people really do not understand that it is man's destiny to reach beyond our everyday lives and explore. And, by doing so we reach new discoveries that make us all better. We've also reached depths of the ocean that we did not know was possible, so one does not exclude the other.

Yeah, all that waste creates jobs, and those jobs create more jobs.

And we wouldn't know quite how bad we were messing up the planet, let alone what we could do to curb it, if we didn't have all those oceanic and atmospheric satellites monitoring from above. That's a direct product of the space race. We learned about global warming first from Venus, and that's as dead as dead gets.

And we thought Mars was dead, too, but now it turns out there's water after all, a whole lot of it, and a very distinct possibility some of it could be liquid some of the time. We might not find Marvin, but what we learn could be a lot more useful.

I agree somewhat with the last 2 post, BUT,, the temp gun, and the cat scan were invented here, on earth. They just used them on the moon/ outer space.
Im not so convienced on "global warming". Global warming is a trend in temps that happens here on earth. Theres records to prove it.
I DO apreciate the satellites, and they are a positive, USEFULL product of NASA I suppose, but like I said, we should understand whats on and beneath our planet first. It just seems more promissing for the greater good to me.
spooky

That is the same as the people in America that say "we should take care of our own before helping other HUMAN BEINGS elsewhere on the planet," and I disagree completely.

The scientific community is prety much in agreement that the current "trend" of "global warming" on earth is like nothing that has been seen before. The temps are climbing much faster as a result of humans dumping millions of pounds of CO2 into the atmoshpere every day! And while the CAT scan and MRI were developed on earth, they were developed because of programs going to other bodies in space. If there hadn't been that need they wouldn't have been developed.

We (Americans) should be taking care of our own first and formost. We have been trying to take care of others for quiet a few years now and look what thats got us. But thats another subject.
Im just saying that in times like these, we dont need to be dumping millions of dollars on "what MIGHT be, and what iffs". When theres extra money to spend, then thats the time for toys. But now (in the real world) people are starving, and our boarders are being invaded. Meanwile, we landed a giant tin can on a planet just to say we could:confusd:..
spooky

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That is the same as the people in America that say "we should take care of our own before helping other HUMAN BEINGS elsewhere on the planet," and I disagree completely.

The scientific community is prety much in agreement that the current "trend" of "global warming" on earth is like nothing that has been seen before. The temps are climbing much faster as a result of humans dumping millions of pounds of CO2 into the atmoshpere every day! And while the CAT scan and MRI were developed on earth, they were developed because of programs going to other bodies in space. If there hadn't been that need they wouldn't have been developed.

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I would say that, in a lot of ways, I am one of those people that say we should help America first. We have people here in need. Why should we help another country over our own first? If we had enough to help everyone at the same time or have fixed our issues already, then I wouldn't have a problem with helping the world. Excluding disaster relief obviously. In a disaster we all need to come together and help. I understand we are all human and one species, but its not so cut and dry. We can't save the world if our own country is falling apart. Its a priority game...

Back on point. I think space exploration is important. I don't think it was underplayed necessarily. I think they used new ideas to spread it to a new generation. They used YouTube, the internet, and even made a game on Xbox live about the Rover landing. It was a good strategy to get younger people interested...

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