NASA Is Wasting Our Money!
By Furrukh
@Furrukh (701)
Pakistan
December 19, 2006 11:03am CST
I have read it many times on newspapers and on news channels that every year billions of dollars are donated to nasa for thier research,and what have we achieved till now,statistically speaking landing on the moon is the only achievement that the nasa has achieved since its creation,which some people still claims that it was a fake.So tell me whats the point in spending billions of dollars in making a space probe which would collect the fragments from the mars,I mean even if these people succeed in finding life on other planets,i still think its of no use cuz noone would go there to live his/her life,so whats the point in spending so much,if the same amount was spent on medicine im sure we would have find a cure for aids.So my question is to those nasa enthusiastics that why do you think we should still provide funds to nasa and what good can this firm bring to the world.?
4 responses
@KrazyKlingon (5005)
• United States
20 Dec 06
From needing new materials that have been developed, other uses besides the space program have been found. Plastics that NASA needed has been used for artificial hearts to prolong life. I think other materials NASA uses was even used for special mattresses.
In space, there are also satellites orbiting Earth so that makes intercontinental communication possible.
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@icetee (66)
• Pakistan
20 Dec 06
its kind of investing in the future. see ten years down the line astronauts find iron ore on th emoon in huge quantities or some other precous material like methane and ofcourse it will bein huge quantities. so it will increase supply and dive down price and so eventually everyine will benefit
@icetee (66)
• Pakistan
20 Dec 06
yeah but iron ore was just an example...there so many other things that are lying there on the moon, maybe natural gas etc. In all i mean to say that the moon or anyothe rplanet for that matter can be a great source of raw materials whether we need em now or in the future
@josephperera (2906)
• Sri Lanka
23 Dec 06
I don't believe that money can be wasted. Let's say I build a house and fix a wooden front door for $20. The next door man who is rich used the same wood and fixed a door for $2000. Did he waste money? No. The money went to skilled craftmen, people who make brass ornaments and other technicians who measure the accuracy of fixing 100%.
Similary the money that NASA spends goes to the pockets of US citizens. They deserve it because it the citizens who developed the country.
Lets say they spent $1000,000 to send a rocket to the moon. Did the money go to the moon? No. Only a few tons of iron and some oxygen, hydrogen and other gases went to the moon. The money went to the engineers the technicians and them. When they get money into their pockets they visit Sri Lanka and spend it. Then their money becomes our money.
@josephperera (2906)
• Sri Lanka
23 Dec 06
If we get it direct then our people instead of doing a tourist trade or some other trade to earn money, will start living on charity and become a nation of beggars.
In Sri Lanka a religious organisation had put up some posters on walls. It says "Christmas is for the poor and not the vendors, give to the poor and not the vendors".
Someone had added under it:"Then the vendors will become poor without money and the poor will get the money and become vendors. Next year you will be giving the poor who were actually the vendor you avoided this year. So just do as you always did." I think this is true.
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@margieanneart (26423)
• United States
20 Dec 06
We have to do what our country leaders demand. I suppose down the road, it will lead to some for sure, that is why they do it.
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@snowflake5 (1579)
• United States
23 Dec 06
All exploration ventures are initially very expensive, but prove their worth later.
I expect people told Henry the Navigator that funding Vasco da Gama in finding a sea route to India was a ruinous waste of money. But it wasn't. It changed the world.
One way it changed the world was in food: tomato, potato and chilli are plants of the new world (South America) but transformed the cuisine everywhere they were introduced, from Italy to Ireland to India (especially west coast India). There is a definite change in the food habits of the world starting in the 16th century, when the explorers started moving about and introducing new plants everywhere.
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