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Has *everything* really been done? Is there any reason for human existance? (more to the point) If exploration of space really did occur, wouldn't it be done mostly with scanners etc, and not with face to face interaction, and wouldn't there be some worry about unknown contaminents, thus the use of probes and the like be more likely used? (after all, probes can be built and distributed more easily than redshirts who just might implode because of some unanticipated atmospheric anomaly that was not anticipated. Also, I would wager that probes are less expensive for travel in space, etc. ahem.
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Naaaaah.
No. Yes to water the flowers, and give Racoons shelter from the rain. Yes probes are better but harder to sell to the voters in Bellville. Any other questions of a cosmological nature I can answer?
i don't believe everything's been done. besides, redshirts are cheaper than probes.
Redshirts are cheaper, but the air, food, fuel, and space needed are expensive. They're more fun though.
and probes are less friendly.
Since when has the US government cared about being friendly? One can only hope that when we really get around to worrying about this that we will... but considering how the government treats it's own citizens I have little faith that people would truely care about being friendly unless faced with a higher power than it's own... Besides. The government can spend billions and billions of dollars on machinery but is extremely hard pressed to place people in the equasion. (note: the billions that is spent on machenery is usually machinery that is designed for no other purpose than to KILL PEOPLE. This tells *me* something.) <depression : OFF>
Unfortunately, we need some major good event to happen in space exploration to get people interested again. We've learned a lot about space in the past 40 years, but since the Challenger exploded and the Voyagers passed Saturn, noone has been really interested in space exploration, much less travel. Science Fiction leaves the idea open, but the governments are content to rely on aging Space Shuttles and the dying Mir space station. Even the Hubble Telescope is falling apart. Without new ships or probes, the space program could end in the US and thus, the rest of the world. If I could believe that benign space probes could excite the masses as much as footage of the Gulf War or missile tests, I would've gone into aerospace engineering. Alas, NASA isn't hiring and the defense contractors build more powerful weapons in the expectation of a major war. It's only when individuals can inflict massive casualties and damage on a regular basis that the government might redirect their thinking. Big wars are over. Lone gunmen are now the greater threat. Shouldn't we try to get the hell off the planet and get away from them? That's probably the only rationale the government would use to further space travel. <rant=off>
yeah, but then you start getting into the subject of whether it's right for us to wander off into space, treating other planets as badly as this one.
Re #8: A more callous response would be that at least we wouldn't just kill ourselves here. I'd rather take the more optimistic view that space exploration will lead to space colonization. This would take some of the pressure off of the earth's resources and allow those pioneering spirits to try their luck on a new frontier. New cultures and new ideas might develop as a result.
would anyone care?
> Unfortunately, we need some major good event to happen in space exploration > to get people interested again. We've learned a lot about space in the Someone was listening. Hooray.
Well, this stuff about mars hopefully will get someone's attention.
Conspiracy theorists seem to be the first to notice.
Yup, them hamsters from mars are out to get us all! <grin>
That is important. Do not trust hamsters from Mars. They are in fact out to get us. In fact, be very wary of any rodents from other planets. Watch for a gigantic brazen cover-up on these scary invaders, coming soon from a government office somewhere in New Mexico.
yes, and I grew up there! <font cackles evil-ly> <th ththth th>
I believe!!!!! Void shall return!
<sneaks in, hoping to remain unnoticed :>
Ah. But My belief is strong. So there.
You believed in a void, and got one. Meanwhile...emptiness.
well. I believe as long as I get reinforcements. :-)
We could use some reinforcements. Where is everybody? I suppose *I* shouldn't ask.
Good question, srw. However, I suppose they have that thing called _a life_. How disturbing.
Life I don't have a stinkin' life, whatcha tawking about.
Well then you are lying to us on accordion. You act like you have a life, but you dont'....So act like you don't have one and respond more often! :-)
life? hmmm. <wanders off, pondering the definition of this "life" thing.>
It's like death, only backwards.
if 42 = life, then 24 = death. See, that simple.
And then 242 is reincarnation.
yes and 24242424242424242424242_ is eternal life. ;-)
Following the line of thinking in the previous few posts, then death has less magnitude than life, and the least common factor is 6. Life/death ends in the endlessly repeated 6 showing the obvious connection to that which is the least common factor between life and death, for which of course 6 is only a cipher, a coded transmission from the Martian hampsters. Trust the hampsters, the hampsters are your friend... Please report to room 24, or the nearest termination center immediately.
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