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Look, I hold my hands up.
I'm very cynical of this project.
Deadline after deadline has been missed, in my opinion it won't succeed in its aims and if it does there's little point.
Space travel is fine, if you can, do it but there's nothing there, no life on mars, no water on the moon, no crashed planes whirring round in orbit.
We went to the moon and found bit yo be what was suspected, a barren rock.
As for Mars, we never will, never ever.
I'm very cynical of this project.
Deadline after deadline has been missed, in my opinion it won't succeed in its aims and if it does there's little point.
Space travel is fine, if you can, do it but there's nothing there, no life on mars, no water on the moon, no crashed planes whirring round in orbit.
We went to the moon and found bit yo be what was suspected, a barren rock.
As for Mars, we never will, never ever.
Thankyou4calling said:
Look, I hold my hands up.
I'm very cynical of this project.
Deadline after deadline has been missed, in my opinion it won't succeed in its aims and if it does there's little point.
Space travel is fine, if you can, do it but there's nothing there, no life on mars, no water on the moon, no crashed planes whirring round in orbit.
We went to the moon and found bit yo be what was suspected, a barren rock.
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As for Mars, we never will, never ever.
It seems you're cynical over the whole concept of exploring space. I'm very cynical of this project.
Deadline after deadline has been missed, in my opinion it won't succeed in its aims and if it does there's little point.
Space travel is fine, if you can, do it but there's nothing there, no life on mars, no water on the moon, no crashed planes whirring round in orbit.
We went to the moon and found bit yo be what was suspected, a barren rock.
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As for Mars, we never will, never ever.
Question: do you ever leave your village/town/city? If so, have you ever gone anywhere to see or experience what was there? Or do you just look at the next town and think 'pointless going there, it'll have houses, shops and facilities the same as here'.
k it. We should never have bothered to see what was in the next valley all those millennia ago.ash73 said:
Thank God everyone doesn't think as you do.
I agree, it's good not everyone thinks like me.Posts on here are not the best way of putting a point of veiw across but I can't see any progress being made in space travel or much point in trying.
What are people looking for? What do they think they'll find.
I would bet my house that no manned craft will land on Mars in the next 50 years.
Thankyou4calling said:
I agree, it's good not everyone thinks like me.
Posts on here are not the best way of putting a point of veiw across but I can't see any progress being made in space travel or much point in trying.
What are people looking for? What do they think they'll find.
I would bet my house that no manned craft will land on Mars in the next 50 years.
Is there any way of keeping this post as a sticky?Posts on here are not the best way of putting a point of veiw across but I can't see any progress being made in space travel or much point in trying.
What are people looking for? What do they think they'll find.
I would bet my house that no manned craft will land on Mars in the next 50 years.
Thankyou4calling said:
jammy_basturd said:
You seem to be very ignorant to the advances that space travel have made that have filtered down into healthcare and everyday life.
Pens that write upside down, SatNav and Sky TV.More here http://spinoff.nasa.gov/Spinoff2008/tech_benefits....
Thankyou4calling said:
Pens that write upside down, SatNav and Sky TV.
I suspect you are being facetious. But it's a good point, I'd just assumed that the things we got form space exploration were things like 'space blankets', but this encouraged me to look it up. It's a pretty long list!http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA_spin-off_technol...
Some of the things are pretty niche, but the necessity has bred some pretty good invention: water purification, solar cells, insulin pumps & cochlear implants. More frivolous improvements are things like scratch resistant lenses, memory foam, LEDs etc. but still pretty spesh.
Tonsko said:
I suspect you are being facetious. But it's a good point, I'd just assumed that the things we got form space exploration were things like 'space blankets', but this encouraged me to look it up. It's a pretty long list!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA_spin-off_technol...
Some of the things are pretty niche, but the necessity has bred some pretty good invention: water purification, solar cells, insulin pumps & cochlear implants. More frivolous improvements are things like scratch resistant lenses, memory foam, LEDs etc. but still pretty spesh.
The following is a list of technologies sometimes mistakenly attributed to NASA.[32] In some cases, NASA popularized technology or aided its development.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA_spin-off_technol...
Some of the things are pretty niche, but the necessity has bred some pretty good invention: water purification, solar cells, insulin pumps & cochlear implants. More frivolous improvements are things like scratch resistant lenses, memory foam, LEDs etc. but still pretty spesh.
Barcodes (NASA developed a special type of barcode, but this should not be mistaken for the original one.)
Cordless power tools (The first cordless power tool was unveiled by Black & Decker in 1961. It was used by NASA and a number of spinoff products came out of that.)
Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) (NASA has, however, contributed to its advances over the years. MRI is best known as a device for body scanning.)
Quartz clocks (The quartz clock dates back to 1927. However in the late 1960s, NASA partnered with a company to make a quartz clock that was on the market for a few years.)
Smoke detectors (NASA’s connection to the modern smoke detector is that it made one with adjustable sensitivity as part of the Skylab project.)
Tang juice powder (Tang was developed by General Foods in 1957, and it has been for sale since 1959. It was used in the first orbit missions, which gave awareness to it.)
Teflon (Invented for DuPont in 1938 and used on frying pans from the 1950s.[33] It has been applied by NASA to heat shields, space suits, and cargo hold liners.)
Velcro (A Swiss invention from the 1940s. Velcro was used during the Apollo missions to anchor equipment for astronauts’ convenience in zero gravity situations.)
Space Pen (A common urban legend states that NASA spent a large amount of money to develop a pen that would write in space (the result purportedly being the Fisher Space Pen), while the Soviets just used pencils.[34][35])
Thankyou4calling said:
The following is a list of technologies sometimes mistakenly attributed to NASA.[32] In some cases, NASA popularized technology or aided its development.
Barcodes (NASA developed a special type of barcode, but this should not be mistaken for the original one.)
Cordless power tools (The first cordless power tool was unveiled by Black & Decker in 1961. It was used by NASA and a number of spinoff products came out of that.)
Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) (NASA has, however, contributed to its advances over the years. MRI is best known as a device for body scanning.)
Quartz clocks (The quartz clock dates back to 1927. However in the late 1960s, NASA partnered with a company to make a quartz clock that was on the market for a few years.)
Smoke detectors (NASA’s connection to the modern smoke detector is that it made one with adjustable sensitivity as part of the Skylab project.)
Tang juice powder (Tang was developed by General Foods in 1957, and it has been for sale since 1959. It was used in the first orbit missions, which gave awareness to it.)
Teflon (Invented for DuPont in 1938 and used on frying pans from the 1950s.[33] It has been applied by NASA to heat shields, space suits, and cargo hold liners.)
Velcro (A Swiss invention from the 1940s. Velcro was used during the Apollo missions to anchor equipment for astronauts’ convenience in zero gravity situations.)
Space Pen (A common urban legend states that NASA spent a large amount of money to develop a pen that would write in space (the result purportedly being the Fisher Space Pen), while the Soviets just used pencils.[34][35])
So?Barcodes (NASA developed a special type of barcode, but this should not be mistaken for the original one.)
Cordless power tools (The first cordless power tool was unveiled by Black & Decker in 1961. It was used by NASA and a number of spinoff products came out of that.)
Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) (NASA has, however, contributed to its advances over the years. MRI is best known as a device for body scanning.)
Quartz clocks (The quartz clock dates back to 1927. However in the late 1960s, NASA partnered with a company to make a quartz clock that was on the market for a few years.)
Smoke detectors (NASA’s connection to the modern smoke detector is that it made one with adjustable sensitivity as part of the Skylab project.)
Tang juice powder (Tang was developed by General Foods in 1957, and it has been for sale since 1959. It was used in the first orbit missions, which gave awareness to it.)
Teflon (Invented for DuPont in 1938 and used on frying pans from the 1950s.[33] It has been applied by NASA to heat shields, space suits, and cargo hold liners.)
Velcro (A Swiss invention from the 1940s. Velcro was used during the Apollo missions to anchor equipment for astronauts’ convenience in zero gravity situations.)
Space Pen (A common urban legend states that NASA spent a large amount of money to develop a pen that would write in space (the result purportedly being the Fisher Space Pen), while the Soviets just used pencils.[34][35])
You scrolled past a pretty long list to get to those few items. And that is just NASA - not subcontractors or any other space agency around the world!
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