Do you mean the couple of flights by the space shuttle to repair
Hubble, or the entire program? We have had around 160+ space shuttle
flights.
We know pretty much everything we need to know? Why didn't we stop
with Aristotle? Hell, we knew everything we needed to know by then.
What's a microchip? Who knows, who cares.
I'll bet the casualties of Challenger and Columbia wish we knew more.
And yes, it is troubling, but rather we kill our own planet, or some
meteor does it for us, the point is, we need to spread out. I don't
think dinosaur farts or their nuclear weapons wiped them out. If they
only would have had the foresight to get to the moon and Mars. But no,
they were dinosaurs with walnut sized brains. I'd like to think we're
better.
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On Sep 10, 2009, at 4:12 PM, Chris Dunford wrote:
Do you really think a robot could have fixed the Hubble the couple
times it's needed to be fixed? I really doubt it.
We could have replaced Hubble for far less than we've spent on the
shuttle program.
Do you really think we could gather the information needed on how
space effects humans by a bunch of robots?
We know pretty much everything we need to know by now. And if we
don't send people up there, we don't need to worry about it anyway. :)
And no clear purpose? How about the survival of the species? Have you
ever heard that old saying, don't put all your eggs in one basket?
This is a very troubling argument. It boils down to, "We can't stop
ourselves from ruining the planet we have, so let's make sure we can
move to Mars." We'd be much better off taking the untold
trillions it would take to accomplish this and using it to protect
what we already have.
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