Water on the Moon

[MrIcky]

17.6 billion is NASA's budget, the total US budget is 2,979,000,000,000 (or, 00.5%) of the budget. I'm willing to spend 1/2 of 1% of my taxes on this-at least it's visible instead of some pork barrel project that gets hidden on the 1000th page of some bill. It's one of those arguments that's fairly useless as I know I'll never convince those against NASA and those against NASA will never convince me.

[KILLER74Z28]

Originally Posted by cyberbro

They found a Starbucks as well.

Two of them... There was another one across the street...

[MrIcky]

While you've been joking, they've been tracking your IP. Black suburbans got nothin' on the Starbucks Evil Empire (SBEE).

[Zeus]

Originally Posted by MrIcky

17.6 billion is NASA's budget, the total US budget is 2,979,000,000,000 (or, 00.5%) of the budget. I'm willing to spend 1/2 of 1% of my taxes on this-at least it's visible instead of some pork barrel project that gets hidden on the 1000th page of some bill. It's one of those arguments that's fairly useless as I know I'll never convince those against NASA and those against NASA will never convince me.

Just let them complain, it makes them feel better

[tones2SS]

Originally Posted by boxmonkeyracing

waste of money? you're entitled to your own opinion. but oh well and no wonder this earth is so screwed up.

so many minor advancements have been achieved that make our lives so easier due to research funded by nasa.

Also got a question for you P what do you truly consider better research?

I respect your opinion on this.
But if you can clear this up or give me a fact/example of this, I may see your point - "so many minor advancements have been achieved that make our lives so easier due to research funded by nasa."
Thanks!

[GSX]

I hate to say this but engineers and researchers are not just bound to saving lives. I for one don't feel that NASA is a waste of money at all (I wouldn't be studying Aerospace Engineering if I wanted to save lives in the first place). There will come a time where humans living on other planets/space colonies will be possible and needed (I even heard about talks about space elevators).

[Zeus]

Originally Posted by tones2SS

I respect your opinion on this.
But if you can clear this up or give me a fact/example of this, I may see your point - "so many minor advancements have been achieved that make our lives so easier due to research funded by nasa."
Thanks!

Cell phone's

[tones2SS]

Originally Posted by Zeus

Cell phone's

Space exploration is responsible for creating cell phone's, or the research from NASA is responsible?

[PQ]

Originally Posted by POWERFREAK

without the space program...there would be no satellites...and with no satellites, there'd be no Onstar (among other things).

Lauching a Sattelite and Space Exploration are two entirely different things.

Originally Posted by zebra

well... the chinese had an idea...

Originally Posted by zebra

try to help all you want, but some people just never get it...

Originally Posted by NoUCantDriveIt

*hands PQ an old copy of "See Dick Run"*... here PQ, time for you to review. Pop quiz in 15 minutes.

Originally Posted by Number 3

Well I'm not sure about needing water from the moon HERE, but I do believe that ability to NOT have to haul water to the moon is a huge deal. Water is 8 pounds per gallon and you need quite a bit of it to keep a man or a woman alive on the moon......................................for low gravity research and manufacturing.........................which I believe saves human lives.

Surprised by the negativity on this subject. Exploration is (IMO) the essence of mankind. If we didn't explore where would we be today. Or are you just saying we've explored enough and we should just stop now?

Don't get me wrong, I respect your opinions, just surprised a little.

And seriously, just google the things that have resulted from space exploration. Think of things that you use every day that are a result of space exploration. And just think of how happy X will be driving a Camaro on the moon.

Don't really want too research any more. Nothin I can do to change it. AT ALL. It's not like we can vote on it.

Originally Posted by boxmonkeyracing

waste of money? you're entitled to your own opinion. but oh well and no wonder this earth is so screwed up.

so many minor advancements have been achieved that make our lives so easier due to research funded by nasa.

Also got a question for you P what do you truly consider better research?

Come on dude. NASA IS funded. We fund them. They can't 'fund' anyone.

And better research would be Cancer to name just one.

Originally Posted by MrIcky

17.6 billion is NASA's budget, the total US budget is 2,979,000,000,000 (or, 00.5%) of the budget. I'm willing to spend 1/2 of 1% of my taxes on this-at least it's visible instead of some pork barrel project that gets hidden on the 1000th page of some bill. It's one of those arguments that's fairly useless as I know I'll never convince those against NASA and those against NASA will never convince me.

THIS THREAD IS ABOUT MOON WATER. The rest of our ridiculous National Budget is another topic. I feel much stronger about that crap.

Originally Posted by KILLER74Z28

Two of them... There was another one across the street...

Originally Posted by Zeus

Just let them complain, it makes them feel better

Dude, you started the thread. What did you want?

A bunch of posts that said;

Cool.

Neato.

Oh, water, great thread.

Awesome.

Wow. That's cool.

??????

Originally Posted by Zeus

Cell phone's

Right, cause we never would have had cell phones without crashing a rocket into the moon.

[Zeus]

Originally Posted by tones2SS

Space exploration is responsible for creating cell phone's, or the research from NASA is responsible?

lol fail

Originally Posted by PQ

Dude, you started the thread. What did you want?

A bunch of posts that said;

Cool.

Neato.

Oh, water, great thread.

Awesome.

Wow. That's cool.

??????

Right, cause we never would have had cell phones without crashing a rocket into the moon.

Yea I started this so I could be enlightened by the better half of society about how NASA doesn't save lives and it's a gigantic waste of less than 1% of our tax dollars. Good point.

[PQ]

Originally Posted by Zeus

Yea I started this so I could be enlightened by the better half of society about how NASA doesn't save lives and it's a gigantic waste of less than 1% of our tax dollars. Good point.

So then you're one of those guys who looks passed and glosses over a waste of money because it's 'not that much'.

Wait? Dude? Is your real name Harry Reid? lmao

[POWERFREAK]

Originally Posted by PQ

Lauching a Sattelite and Space Exploration are two entirely different things.

mmmm....ok, but if we never got off the earth back in the 60's (because of space exploration), we wouldn't currently be lancing satellites.

BTW...This thread sucks.

[PQ]

Originally Posted by POWERFREAK

mmmm....ok, but if we never got off the earth back in the 60's (because of space exploration), we wouldn't currently be lancing satellites.

BTW...This thread sucks.

The first trip out of the atmosphere was unmanned. We could launch satellites.

We need NASA to work on an aftermatket EMT service since we really on them so much.

[Zeus]

Originally Posted by PQ

So then you're one of those guys who looks passed and glosses over a waste of money because it's 'not that much'.

Wait? Dude? Is your real name Harry Reid? lmao

I don't consider it a waste of money. Some of us appreciate intellectual expansion, which is the main goal of NASA.