IMO, yes, NASA is worth it. A lot of what they do appears worthless at the time, only to become commonplace years later. Look at what they have done for the military, agriculture, and even hunters with GPS systems. They have also paved the way for aviation advances. I think sometimes it seems as if they are spinning their wheels, when in reality what they do will have an impact years, maybe even decades down the road.
As far as the money being better spent elsewhere, not likely. Better saved, maybe, but only if our government actually knew how to save money.[:@]
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IMO, yes, NASA is worth it.Â* A lot of what they do appears worthless at the time, only to become commonplace years later.Â* Look at what they have done for the military, agriculture, and even hunters with GPS systems.Â* They have also paved the way for aviation advances.Â* I think sometimes it seems as if they are spinning their wheels, when in reality what they do will have an impact years, maybe even decades down the road.
As far as the money being better spent elsewhere, not likely.Â* Better saved, maybe, but only if our government actually knew how to save money.[:@]
yup. as i understand it (where's tard to help us out???)all of the microcircuitry that made possible the PC revolution was based on NASA requirements/breakthroughs.
Our investment in NASA has compensated for itself a jillion times over (no, I"™m not kidding). From microcomputers, aerospace, industry, transportation, sports equipment, health care, communications, and manufacturing and so on. The list is never-ending.
NASA's total budget is less than 1/10 of 1% of the US budget. So, write your representatives and tell them that you want financial backing for NASA.
Some people said the Wright's were wasteing their time and money. Look how far we have come in a hundred years, I can only imagine what the next 100 will be like.
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Don't forget "Tang" was developed for the astronauts.
Do they still make that crap? Give me the real stuff any day. I have some concerns about the massive size of that department They run just like the Government with the left hand not knowing what the right hand is doing. I am interested in aviation and have followed them since the old days of John Glenn and Neil Armstrong. The catastrophic accidents that they have had are a little difficult to take. I always thought that Nasa was the absolute top rung of the ladder but now I am not so sure. During the cold war and the race for space we threw everything but the kitchen sink into Nasa. They used to have all the best engineers period. During those times budgets didn't really matter and the end result justified all the money spent. Just watching how they have dealt with this foam thing makes me wonder. They know that it caused the damage to Challenger in '86 that brought it down and then again to Columbia in '03. Now they have decided that they will take pictures to see if there is any foam falling off and guess what it happened again but thankfully didn't do much damage. Do they have a problem getting things done? I don't know but you would think that after the first disaster they would have made sure it didn't happen again.
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I read/saw/heard somewhere that there is an asteroid in space right now and it is projected to hit Earth in the year 2029. They said they have the tech. right now to blow it off coarse just enough to miss Earth.
If this is true, and if this is the only thing to come out of NASA, then HELL YES it's worth it.
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Well worth it. It reminds me of a statement by a professor from back when about the "Star Wars"-Missle Shield technologies. The question of worth was applied to many (all?) of the research projects that were funded under the SDI. He said the biggest benefits would most likely come about from spin-offs of that research.
NASA's mission will do the very same thing.
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