Wasted money?

**deathgodusmc** · 12-06-11, 09:23 PM

Originally Posted by Fovezer

Yeah, I agree, fuck science! Who needs it, anyways? Nothing good has ever come from it!

Who said fuck science? Big difference in saying stop wasting money looking for places we cant get to and put into finding a way to get there. By the time you have the means the vision part will be easy.

**deathgodusmc** · 12-06-11, 09:24 PM

Originally Posted by CivilWars

By that logic we can only fly a manned spacecraft to the moon and/or space station, so we shouldn't look beyond that. I sure hope no meteors or asteroids come on a collision course with Earth because by the time we knew it we would all be dead.

Thats failed logic and a sever twist on what i said. Knowledge we can actually use here and now is extremely more helpful then knowledge we cant use regardless.

**chray00** · 12-06-11, 09:39 PM

Originally Posted by deathgodusmc

Who said fuck science? Big difference in saying stop wasting money looking for places we cant get to and put into finding a way to get there. By the time you have the means the vision part will be easy.

but before we find ways to get there... shouldn't we figure out if any of these places are worth our time? Let them scientists do their work, it's only been a few years since we've been able to directly observe extra-solar planets, and months(?) since we managed to get a glimpse of telluric, earth-like planets, which is an incredible achievement to say the least, and there's so much left to discover.

No money used in order to get a better understanding of our universe is wasted in my book.

**deathgodusmc** · 12-06-11, 09:45 PM

Originally Posted by chray00

but before we find ways to get there... shouldn't we figure out if any of these places are worth our time? Let them scientists do their work, it's only been a few years since we've been able to directly observe extra-solar planets, and months(?) since we managed to get a glimpse of telluric, earth-like planets, which is an incredible achievement to say the least, and there's so much left to discover.

No money used in order to get a better understanding of our universe is wasted in my book.

No. Now let me explain why. We have spent alot of money on being able to take pictures of places we cant get to. As such we have plenty of places already to go to. Its time to switch focus. We can already make really good cameras and odds are by the time we get a ship that can make the trip new tech will have given us much better ways to take pictures.

**QuickLightning** · 12-06-11, 09:45 PM

Really?... This is a waste?... Not our ridiculous military spending or government waste, but this?...

**deathgodusmc** · 12-06-11, 09:49 PM

Originally Posted by QuickLightning

Really?... This is a waste?... Not our ridiculous military spending or government waste, but this?...

Wrong guy i've already stated about a million times my feelings on government waste and gave examples of it. Military budget is more a legislative issue then a military one.

**moving-target** · 12-06-11, 09:53 PM

Originally Posted by QuickLightning

Really?... This is a waste?... Not our ridiculous military spending or government waste, but this?...

both are

why find a planet why not make space colonies then focus on planets although when we find a planet that can support life there will be wars fought over who controls it and how its run

**chray00** · 12-06-11, 10:00 PM

Originally Posted by moving-target

both are

why find a planet why not make space colonies then focus on planets although when we find a planet that can support life there will be wars fought over who controls it and how its run

yay for real life eve online

**chray00** · 12-06-11, 10:06 PM

Originally Posted by deathgodusmc

As such we have plenty of places already to go to.

wrong. As for right now, all we know is that planets orbiting the habitable zone of their respective solar system EXIST, but we don,t know anything else about them (yet). We have no fucking clue how they are, other then their approximative size/mass. That's why we have to keep studying them, and develop new tools to observe their characteristics.

I don't think the guys who're going to make a 500 years trip to a new solar system would like to find out that the planet we've observed is, in fact, exactly like venus

**moving-target** · 12-06-11, 10:09 PM

Originally Posted by chray00

yay for real life eve online

nah i remember seein shit like this in science book i had in grade school and why not it would take i dunno 20 or so years to build but its more then possible to grow anything in an artificial enviorment anything you need to live i think could be artificially made