pluto

[The_flying_dutchman]

Absolutely. Plus, considering the BILLIONS that our government wastes, I think $700M to get to Pluto was a BARGAIN.

When you consider the billions spent on weapons, communications equipment, drones, etc to fund this war on BS war on terror, $700 is indeed a bargain.

 

[prison/con.net]

every dime spend on pluto was just MORE waste. 2 wrongs don't make a right.

 

[prison/con.net]

we reached the moon 40 years ago. see any colonies or even any labs there? we're going to gain NOTHING from Mars, guys. This is just a-holes profiting from mass stupidity and that's all it will ever be. it's just another gov't welfare program, paying Ridiculous wages to those lucky enough to be involved in it.

 

[zekko]

we will be long dead before the sun dies out

The sun thing is just one possible disaster that could destroy the earth, or make it uninhabitable. But it's a good example because it is inevitable, even if we have the good fortune to survive that long. So at some point, creating the technology to colonize another planet is desirable, IF you are interested in the survival of the human race. And as I said before, yes, it is a long shot, but it is the only shot we have.

 

[DaddyLongShanks]

we reached the moon 40 years ago. see any colonies or even any labs there? we're going to gain NOTHING from Mars, guys. This is just a-holes profiting from mass stupidity and that's all it will ever be. it's just another gov't welfare program, paying Ridiculous wages to those lucky enough to be involved in it.

Fuels from other planets can allow us to stop draining the earth of it's own resources.

 

[Boilermaker]

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipe...Federal.svg/900px-NASA-Budget-Federal.svg.png

I'll just leave this fact here, in case, there are any complaints regarding "federal spending" for NASA.

 

[prison/con.net]

there is no such thing as "helping the economy" by creating non-productive' jobs. That's called "the broken window" fallacy. want to increase jobs in your town? burn it down. lots of "work" replacing everything, but overall, it's net loss of wealth. that's what NASA is. A net loss, and it always will be. Fvck Govt, fvck taxes and fvck you punks that "think" it's ok to waste other people's money, taken at the point of a gun . Which taxes ARE.

yeah, right "fuels from other planets'. Just spend trillions of $ "saving a few billions of $ worth of fuel. Makes a lot of sense, right? If you've suddenly got thousands of tons of platinum, dummy, GUESS what platinum will be worth? a tiny % of what it's worth now, cause the price reflects rarity. IF you could get it here, which you CANT. So why don't you just wish to be George Clooney? The odds of either one happening are the same.

1% here, 1% there, do you know what 1% of 15 trillion $ budget IS? 150 billion $. Nothing much! Just give that lil old 150 Billion $ to me, and watch me FIX the illegal alien problem in a year! I"ll build that double fence and the rifle towers MYSELF and the militias will man them (for free). Then all we have to do is start horsewhipping (on national tv) those who GET convicted of hiring illegals, and making BEING here illegally a felony, and presto, SAVE a trillion $ a year now lost to illegals.

 

[Bible_Belt]

Fuels from other planets can allow us to stop draining the earth of it's own resources.

The limiting factor in new energy projects like solar and battery power is the amount of precious metals required. That's what makes it expensive.

But if we grabbed something like that asteroid as it flies by, we could turn it into enough solar cells to pave a desert with them, and make more energy than oil has ever produced.

 

[prison/con.net]

IF a frog had a glass azz, he'd bust it every time he hopped, too. IF you could "grab" an asteroid, you could get Angelina to take you on a Greek trip. But you can't.

 

[zekko]

We can't grab an asteroid NOW. But if we shut down the space program, we never will be able to.

 

[donking]

why did columbus set out across the atlantic? he could have learned game, taken the red pill, and banged chicks in portugal.

 

[logicallefty]

I've been following New Horizons and Pluto just as much as anyone lately and love seeing the pictures like the OP posted. But I have to agree with some of the rest of you: there are better bangs for our buck in a bad economy. I bet other countries who play in space like China and Russia are enjoying NASA's interaction with Pluto and laughing going "HAHA it's great and all but glad we didn't have to pay for it! Better them than us" :crackup:

 

[Fatal Jay]

why did columbus set out across the atlantic? he could have learned game, taken the red pill, and banged chicks in portugal.

he also could have actually landed in what we called north America instead of cuba

 

[prison/con.net]

What Isabella spent, relative to her economy and the LIKELY returns on her investment, make NASA look REALLY bad, dude. So you'd better leave Columbus out of the discussion.

 

[donking]

In retrospect, it was a good decision to invest in Columbus, although again, direct returns to Isabella were likely negligible. Similarly, direct returns to the US may be low especially in the short-run; people may look back 500+ years from now and take it for granted that NASA was a great investment.

OR as a country you can invest in the military and prison complex, welfare, obamacare, and the social justice machine. There are much worse investments the government can make. Long-term blue ocean (or in this case, black space) investments are much needed and only governments have the capability to make them.

 

[backbreaker]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHGK96-WixU

 

[prison/con.net]

govt needs to invest in paying childless young women to get sterilized. population growth is murdering our planet with pollution, overfishing, overuse of cropland, demands for paving over crop land, runoff water, etc.

do you think that you've got it tough? half of the world's population lives on less than 1k US per year. Population growth has to stop, folks. If it doesn't, it will mean mass wars, mass starvation, mass disease.

NASA has NO chance of being any return at all. It's nothing more than a pipe dream, and they have KNOWN that for a fact, ever since the first few probes of mars.

 

[DaddyLongShanks]

Technology advances for the space program is useful. They will evolve it greater than anything we could've imagined, just like computers and everything else.

Do you think they knew we'd have automotive technology like we do today?

 

[prison/con.net]

NASA cost 100x what just developing the technology would have cost, for other motivations besides space. Like the Military, most of the Gov't, NASA is just a huge, horribly overpaid unemployment agency.

 

[prison/con.net]

so effing what, really? it takes LIGHT 7 years to reach another solar system from ours. so you're still talking about generations unborn trying to get there, on a ship where they live and die. Not gonna happen, cause nobody's gonna agree to fund such a waste.