Kettle Posted July 10, 2003 Posted July 10, 2003 ... an absolute necessity for the ongoing survival of our race. We need to get off this rock to protect ourselves against disastrous events that could annihilate our species - don't keep all your eggs in one basket.
NSX Posted July 19, 2003 Posted July 19, 2003 Originally posted by Kettle ... an absolute necessity for the ongoing survival of our race. We need to get off this rock to protect ourselves against disastrous events that could annihilate our species - don't keep all your eggs in one basket. It's interesting that you say that. Imagine that the planets are like different life forms, then humans are like symbiotes or germs almost if we populate & excavate other planets. Just a thought.
Sayonara Posted July 19, 2003 Posted July 19, 2003 If you're going to use that ecological analogy, why bother bringing non-Terran planets into it? Colonising a new environment - as an action - has nothing to do with any of the symbioses.
atinymonkey Posted July 22, 2003 Posted July 22, 2003 I kind of like the idea of people conducting space flights. They are like the great and the good explorers, Scott of the Antarctic, Allan Quatermain, Christopher Columbus, Ferdinand Magellan, Don Quixote. More than just people exploring they represent the breaking of boundaries, the struggle to achieve. No matter how pointless it is to orbit a rock, if someone isn't doing something extraordinary then life for us in the real world is a little flatter. As a consequence people have a little less to live for. like the Oscar Wilde quote We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars Hurrah Must stop listening to perk me up tunes. Damn Jack Johnson.
aunt pam Posted August 8, 2003 Posted August 8, 2003 i am the other...i feel that we have wasted enough money and lives on outer space...what will we do...pollute another planet? however i also feel that it is a form of learning...what? i am not sure...maybe we can make the hole in the ozone a little bigger by shooting another space prober up there
rathbaster Posted August 28, 2003 Posted August 28, 2003 Carl Sagan pointed out in his book Pale Blue Dot, we have for a long time been wanderers. I think the need for some people to see with their own eyes over the next ridge, mountain, ocean or gulf of space is genetic, required for them. People like myself on the other hand have no need to travel, heck I hate driving down the street to got to the market.
-Demosthenes- Posted January 24, 2004 Posted January 24, 2004 we have to explore and expand, it's human nature.
Cap'n Refsmmat Posted January 24, 2004 Posted January 24, 2004 aunt pam said in post # :i am the other...i feel that we have wasted enough money and lives on outer space...what will we do...pollute another planet? however i also feel that it is a form of learning...what? i am not sure...maybe we can make the hole in the ozone a little bigger by shooting another space prober up there The space shuttle does approximately one tenth of a percent of the damage to the ozone hole.
Sayonara Posted January 24, 2004 Posted January 24, 2004 So one in a thousand units of damage are caused by shuttle launches. Is that "good value for money"?
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