After the Columbia tragedy many people have been questioning space exploration. It costs a lot of money and has quite a few risks. Do you think we should continue space exploration?

Well, it's not like the people don't know about the risks...I mean, it's awful what happened, but there's more deaths from car wrecks than space shuttle crashes. And besides, I think we have a lot to gain from space exploration. As for the money, everything costs money. Look at rebuilding Iraq...billions of dollars. And building highways and metro systems and ect. But I think we should definitely continue exploring space.

well yeah they even have a international compition, a prize of 10 millon dolars to the frist person to create a new cheper way of going into space. I could talk forever on this because im a techno buff. but it's 4 millon dollar for shuttel ride thats almost as much as an abrams tank! so if any one in here wants to learn more go serch with the keyword x prize

icm9- well between this and genetics, this is their future...

LuMeng and monie- there is a compitition right now called the X prize (u might have seen something on it in discover or on the nat geo channel). now ppl with private funding are racing to find cheap and safe ways to get more ppl into space and get the rollercoaster moving, so that should help.

simmerdown and missusa - awesome... i want to be an astronaught... kinda like my fanciful dream... like what becoming a singer or actress is to most ppl. how did your cous do it?

caerat- you sound like sagan. he always wondered why we were so anxious to take to the sky when we had an entire alien world at the bottom of the ocean. not that he wasn't interested in space exploration... lol...

leckuche- cell phones and space exploration are not discoveries, they are inventions, advancements, "giant leaps" in human interest. they ARE however dependant on many discoveries and have lead to several discoveries themselves (the most important of which being that your grandmother in england can talk for 5 hours straight and that the moon is not made of cheese)

what does this have to do with helping kids?

i have nothing against traveling in space but I wouldn't do it. i think if we were meant to live in space we already would. however i think its great that ppl are always trying to find out more about the universe.

i think there should be more thorough checking of the shuttle,sattelite,etc. before it is launched

we should continue space exploreatin but we should try an make it safeter. if we didn't have space exploration we wouldn't know anything outside of earth.

my cousin is an astronaut and I think that space exploration is really important. A lot of useful electronics and inventions have come out of it, as well as important discoveries.

we're willing to do that. I luv space exploration but i'd kinda like for things on earth to get cleaned up on earth b4 we all leave it.

look guys, space exploration is all about science.if some bunch of brainy guys hadn't decided- knowing how diceyit was-to go out there ,l wouldn't be able to communicate with down there likewise you. cellphones wouldn't be discovered amongst others.


My point is flaws are bound to occur,its ubiquitous,everywhere in life before any social or science revolution .lt must.

ln my mind l really think the more space-exploration the more mindblogging discoveries.

ehehheh..ur ryt..its an oooooooooooooold post...
sory.. heehhhehehheehhehheheh

i thought this would be a good place for my fav analogy,
Sagan said: first... think of all the stars you saw on the clearest night. if you were to pick up a handful of sand on a beach you would have in your hand more grains of sand than all the stars visible to the naked eye on the clearest night. However... in the ENTIRE universe there are more stars than all the sand grains on all the beaches of the entire earth.

thats alot of stars so we'd better get cracking

ofcourse.. NO GUTS NO GLORY!!

and beside.. im going to explore the space when i grow up.. hehe

of course we should, and we will. we just need to find new means to do so. funding for nasa has been cut so it's hard to get things done properly when you're short on cash.

there is nothing more exciting to me than space exploration and astronomy. i cant fathom a world without it.

you just know there's something out there and you have to find out what it is. space is the biggest and most amazing thing we know about. it's human nature to explore it until we find the next frontier. we will go to mars. we will colonize space, we will find alien life, and in doing all this we will come to further understand what it is to be human. in my mind there are few things more important.

if you're into this kinda stuff read sagan and hawking and check out badastronomy.com. also check out faster than the speed of light by joao maguejo, if he proves right then my promisses for the future will come true even sooner. and while you're at it e-mail me

woooo now you've got me all wrowled up!

I think that we should definitely continue space exploration. Understanding what is beyond our world will help us understand ourselves. As a Catholic I believe that everything was created by God. To me space exploration is just further proving there is a God. The more questions that we are able to answer scientifically...the more questions we have that can't be explained. That's just the way that I look at it.

Why are we bothering with spending billions on Space Exploration, when we have so much more we could use that money on right here? When man landed on the moon, poor children were starving from a lack of money right here in our country, while billions were spent on exploring some small, symbolic frontier to beat the Soviets. Today, those same children world wide have all grown up, and they're hungrier than ever. We aren't ready for exploring space right now, we already have enough misery on our planet without failing to reach a largely meaningless and empty new frontier. Space is the human race's future only if the human race survives, and right now that doesn't seem too likely.

yes. y stopping it. there's still some questions that hasn't been answered.

Space exlporation is fine...

I think we should no some stuff about outer space and other planets as it can answer loadsa questions that we have and may even explain why the world is as it is etc but it can also damage us to no to much. Somethings are better left alone ie - what if we found something that could harm us or the whole solar system.