NASA

has anyone heard what Obama gave NASA in his new budget? $1 billion dollars. Now that may sound like a lot of money to the average person here, but in the grand scheme of things it's nothing. He just announced a trillion dollars in new spending and in all of that he's only giving NASA an extra $1billion. Honestly it drives me insane. America has long been declining in the area's of science, and I feel that this just goes to show how they feel about space exploration. Almost none of that new money was set aside for manned spaceflight. As America is going through a tough economic time I think that one thing that would help a lot would be the creation of high tech jobs, and space exploration is the perfect way to get there. Ok I'm going to end my rant here for now, anyone else have any opinions? Or am I the only one who cares haha.

we know more about space than our ocean... we shouldnt give them more money, we know a lot we can take a break from it.

yeah, I think we've explored about %3 of the sea. theres more to gain from exploring the ocean like natural resources. lets face it theres wayyy cooler stuff in the ocean then in space like colossal squids and weird ass plants.

They only really cared about space when they had the competition of the Soviet Union. Personally, I'd rather explore space than the ocean, but I do agree that we should maybe focus a bit on our own planet before moving on, outside of it, more.

well why not both. what i'm getting at is more money needs to be spent on sciences, and less on building for the sake of building. I'm thinking if we have secure high tech jobs then the money will get passed through the system, creating even more jobs, in the same way that spending on infrastructure would, only these would be jobs that would advance society and our knowledge, instead of just having more roads.
I named nasa in particular because i am a huge fan of space, and i think we've become complacant. Our forefathers would be ashamed if they knew that we had the technology to colinize the moon and didn't do it. Humans have always prospered through exploration, whether it be leaving africa for europe, or leaving europe for the america's, we've always been pushing the edge. And now we're backing off. It bugs me a bit.

fact: humans have never been on the moon

NASA...I don't really care for Space exploration, they can have $1 billion, that's plenty. But, I will say NASA has started to expand from more than just space, so that's kind of cool. They do all sorts of science related stuff.

Everybody just wants more money, why not just give it to them. We're already broke anyways, what's another trillion dollars.

lex wrote:

Everybody just wants more money, why not just give it to them. We're already broke anyways, what's another trillion dollars.

Be careful, that kind of logic will get you elected senator someday.

I really think that science in general could use a boost in funding. It should really be one of the most important things to our society, whether it's regarding climate change, space exploration, physics, chemistry or biology (ie. health, medicine, etc).

In my humble opinion, anyways.

Mike wrote:

lex wrote:

Everybody just wants more money, why not just give it to them. We're already broke anyways, what's another trillion dollars.

Be careful, that kind of logic will get you elected senator someday.

LOL!

I'm aiming for governor, wouldn't I be awesome?

brianoverprovidence wrote:

fact: humans have never been on the moon

i agree with this we can barely keep up 4 space shuttles 2 have already failed and killed people, i highly doubt back in the 70's or whenever we went to the moon that they had better construction to take the stresses of space.

ska_sean wrote:

brianoverprovidence wrote:

fact: humans have never been on the moon

i agree with this we can barely keep up 4 space shuttles 2 have already failed and killed people, i highly doubt back in the 70's or whenever we went to the moon that they had better construction to take the stresses of space.

fact: you're an idiot

best go buy some tinfoil before i whip some facts out on your ass

BradGodfrey wrote:

ska_sean wrote:

brianoverprovidence wrote:

fact: humans have never been on the moon

i agree with this we can barely keep up 4 space shuttles 2 have already failed and killed people, i highly doubt back in the 70's or whenever we went to the moon that they had better construction to take the stresses of space.

fact: you're an idiot

best go buy some tinfoil before i whip some facts out on your ass

Fact: You have been trolled.

Shawn! wrote:

BradGodfrey wrote:

ska_sean wrote:

brianoverprovidence wrote:

fact: humans have never been on the moon

i agree with this we can barely keep up 4 space shuttles 2 have already failed and killed people, i highly doubt back in the 70's or whenever we went to the moon that they had better construction to take the stresses of space.

fact: you're an idiot

best go buy some tinfoil before i whip some facts out on your ass

Fact: You have been trolled.

Fact: shit, i have no idea what trolled means haha

theres some crazy ass conspiracy theory that the nazis found a crashed UFO then used the tech to build a moon base. World War 2 went on until the 50's when we took the moon from the nazis. someone actually believes that.

pintsogin wrote:

theres some crazy ass conspiracy theory that the nazis found a crashed UFO then used the tech to build a moon base. World War 2 went on until the 50's when we took the moon from the nazis. someone actually believes that.

you mean that's not true!? oh dear, my life has been so misled

BradGodfrey wrote:

Shawn! wrote:

BradGodfrey wrote:

ska_sean wrote:

brianoverprovidence wrote:

fact: humans have never been on the moon

i agree with this we can barely keep up 4 space shuttles 2 have already failed and killed people, i highly doubt back in the 70's or whenever we went to the moon that they had better construction to take the stresses of space.

fact: you're an idiot

best go buy some tinfoil before i whip some facts out on your ass

Fact: You have been trolled.

Fact: shit, i have no idea what trolled means haha

throw some facts at me buddy, ill throw counter facts at you

fact number 1: it cost nasa between 20 billion and 25.4 billion dollars to do this. brought into today's dollars that's roughly 135 billion dollars, over 4 years. or 33.8 billion a year. nasa's budget right now is about $17 billion a year. hence why it would have been easier to have done something like that back then, as opposed to running space shuttles. also the space shuttles are infinately more complex, and reuseable hence why they have had more problems with it.

fact 2: we have moon rocks to this day. how do you think we got them here?

not so much a fact, but ust another point to make: why would nasa fake having problems with apollo 13? it just seems pointless.

Wow. That's a lot of money that wasn't used to feed starving children. I'm impressed
*poofs out of thread in a poof of smoke*

lol @ conspiracy theories

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090306/ap_on_go_pr_wh/obama_stem_cells

Obama's issuing an executive order that reverses the restriction on government aid for stem cell research. Even if he's not pouring money into NASA, it's not like he's abandoning all science. This is a pretty big vanguard in biological research.

ya i'm super excited to hear that. especially since i just read an article not too long ago that there's stem cell research going on right now that may be able to cure CF which is a terrible desiese that a cousin of mine has. I've been hoping for the states to start spending on stem cell research for so long now. let's hope they funding pours in