NASA Poll

Should NASA focus on Deep Space Exploration or Climate science

  • Deep Space Exploration

  • Climate Science

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Throatpunch

Throatpunch

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IMO Deep Space Exploration because nobody ever listens when people talk about climate change and the world is warming anyway and we'll be overpopulated soon so we might as well fuck off somewhere else.
There are many colonisable planets we can use in the galaxy or other galaxies near us.

Or we could even just drive around space on massive colony ships and live in those. @Hassknecht is this feasible?

Deep Space Exploration is also really cool.
 
Interstellar travel is something we're still very far away from. Colony ships with almost closed cycles? Not yet, Kameraden.
Deep space exploration is definitely an important part of their work, but climate change is not something that takes a lot of work as it's mostly about satellites and observations.
Deep space exploration on the other hand requires some technologies we just don't have. One is a propulsion system that's worth more than the wet farts our current rockets produce.
"We" are not going to fuck off anywhere within the next hundred or so years.

Folks, you need to realize how absurdly big space is. The moon is one light-second away. The trips to the moon took several days.
Mars is up to 22 light minutes away. With current technology (meaning Hohmann transfer orbits) we might make it in half a year. Logistics are becoming an issue, you need to produce some form of artificial gravity or decalcification of the bones set in, and so on and so forth.
The nearest star, Proxima Centauri is 4.24 light years away. That distance is absolutely nuts.
Proxima Centauri might actually have an exoplanet within its habitable zone, but it's still absolutely retarded to even think about getting there in the next century.
And bringing several thousand people there is another thing.
This planet is all we have. I think we should try and not ruin it too much.
 
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Climate.
There is no point in researching deep space exploration if we end up all dead before it is possible to go out there and physically explore/colonize.
 
Climate.
Deep Space is interesting, and it pains me that I'll never live to see it.
But climate needs to be looked into right now.
 
They could have done that already by picking up all of our radio signals. It would be like us going to destroy an ant hill on some planet in Alpha Centauri.
 
There are some really interesting theoretical possibilities to fuck with spacetime in order to get interstellar travel done, but most of them are hilariously unfeasible in the even marginally near future. I'll talk about them in the Dark Matter oTO thread, if anyone's interested.
 
Hassknecht said:
There are some really interesting theoretical possibilities to fuck with spacetime in order to get interstellar travel done, but most of them are hilariously unfeasible in the even marginally near future. I'll talk about them in the Dark Matter oTO thread, if anyone's interested.
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Count me in as an interested party :nod:.
 
Newton Gingrich seem to be hell-bent on getting Americans on Mars, isn't he? Now he's close friend with new president elect, so we can expect a lot of funny stuff going on. Building American base on the Moon and getting Americans on Mars before 2020 was one of his goals during his campaign. Also he was speculating couple of years back that as soon as there would be 13000 Americans stationed in the Moon base they could start a petition to become another American state. The dude is driven on by the fear that Chinese folks would beat U.S. to the punch so he's in a great hurry! :)

NASA engineers told him that this plan is not feasible, he wouldn't have listened though.
 
Nasa is a space exploration organization. I do believe they can support different groups with the use of some of their assets, but their main focus should be on exploration.
 
GonZo_626 said:
Nasa is a space exploration organization. I do believe they can support different groups with the use of some of their assets, but their main focus should be on exploration.
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Actually NASA is not a space exploration organization. They are primarily a "air" and "space" vehicle organization, their job is to design and build better space and air craft.
They do have the means to explore space and do so (mostly the solar system but sometimes they also look outside of it), but their main objective is to design and build better ships/planes/probes/satellites/etc.
 
Vergil said:
Space exploration because at least that's actually real.
;^)
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No it's not. Space is a lie and the real space station is actually hidden in the south pole as a secret base where they shoot all the fake space footage and it was where they first filmed the moon landing.
You see, the world is flat and there is no space above it, it's all a giant sheet with lights on it that is really really high. There are also no real airplanes, those are attached with cables to the posts that hold the "space" sheet, and then those cables just lift the "air"planes and carry them over to their destination.

Space is all a lie to help some powerful people to get funds, income and some even "scientific" recognition. Open your eyes people, it's time you know the truth!
 
Dr Fallout said:
Space Exploration usually leads to nukes... riiiiight? Cause that's what we need.
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Well, technically the best way to get high payloads to orbit right now is the Project Orion rocket... Which uses the "firecracker under tincan" principle, only with nukes. It's kinda hard to explain to Greenpeace that you need about 200 low yield nuclear bombs to boost your rocket into orbit...
 
Hassknecht said:
Well, technically the best way to get high payloads to orbit right now is the Project Orion rocket... Which uses the "firecracker under tincan" principle, only with nukes. It's kinda hard to explain to Greenpeace that you need about 200 low yield nuclear bombs to boost your rocket into orbit...
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What kind of... genius made that idea? It sounds like some mad scientist and a kids cartoon.
 
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