not true 6% of the earth is not yet explaored but there is less than 6% of space explored.(with explored I mean being there not with a scope)

I'd go, a Trekkie here! but honestly it really is a trivial pursuit, isn't it? more like something to satisfy curiosity than a real contribution to our problems at hand. I say prioritize more on medical research than space exploration.

Other than putting satellites on the orbit and keeping vigilant of incoming planet-killer meteorites , space exploration hasn't really been generating anything tangible for mankind.

I'd only bother to sign up if it got fast enough to do the Kessel run in 6 parsecs

well think about it, at the moment its easier to live at the bottom of the sea than it is on the moon

so just because there is 6% unexplored we should give up? who knows what could be there, big foot, the yeti, the cure for cancer...

Edited by - freighter fighter on 06-07-2003 14:11:28

theres nothing down there, its all crap and seaweed. Thing is with the ocean, your wading through water, that means pressure. You try going to the bottom of all the oceans, it'd be nuts, I wouldnt go.

also:
-when your living there, no VIEW
-when your going there, you cant SEE where your going (how exactly are you supposed to enjoy the place when theres no sunlight down there?)
-there is so much pressure on you that you could be crushed at any second

space it is for me, besides, chances are we WONT find new life down there

-arcon
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Given that we can barely get into orbit at the present time, this is all pretty hypothetical. I was curious to see if we had any adventurous explorers here, ready to expand the frontiers of our known world.

Also, on the issue of safety, if I am going to die of a cause other than old age and good living, I would want to die doing something worthwhile and interesting, like exploring the universe, than die by getting hit by a drunk driver as I cross the street.

Of course, thats just my somewhat slanted viewpoint.

Edited by - Huffer on 06-07-2003 16:27:33

id love to explore the sea, maybe the moon or mars, but no further

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Deepest Point In The Ocean
The deepest part of the ocean was first pinpointed in 1951 by HM Survey Ship Challenger in the Marianas Trench in the Pacific Ocean. On January 23, 1960, the US Navy Trieste vessel descended to the bottom of the Pacific Ocean, and on March 24, 1995, the Japanese probe Kaiko recorded a depth of 10,911 m (35,797 ft), the most accurate measurement yet taken.

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WOW 10km into the earth it must be HOT down there wich means it can support live.

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Deepest Submarine Dive
On August 11, 1989, the Japanese research submarine Shinkai 6500 reached a depth of 6,526 m (21,414 ft) in the Japan Trench, off Sanriku, Japan. The three-man Shinkai submarine has been involved in a number of research projects. In 1999 it dived down to the undersea volcano of Lo´ihi near Hawaii to monitor seismic activity.

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where half way there.

I would love to explore space.... Only if I had like the Enterprise or Voyager or an Imperial star destroyer.

I disagree, there are tangible benefits. Very important ones too. For one thing, we'd actually be able to *do* something about the killer asteroid our sattelites detect. You're not going to be able to change the orbit of that sucker with an unmanned probe. If you've got several million people living in space, surely you could set up a colony a few years in advance of the collision and begin adjusting it's orbit, or drilling a hole in it or whatever it is we decide to do. Merely spotting it won't do us any good if we don't have the experience or means to actually do something about it. Granted, the odds of this happening are small, but worth advancing our civilization.

Not to mention protection from disease, economic collapse, militaristic threats, etc. Anyway, I'm not sure money should be allocated from space flight to things like medical research. Space flight already gets an extremely small amount of money compared to other things. Frankly, you would be better off allocating money from other areas, if you were really serious about giving medical research more funding. But in most cases, people aren't. They want their sattelite TV, faster computers, etc.

I typed a whole page about this topic I wanted to post it but that stupid page not found pops up I hit back gone the whole thing.
so this is a sumup:...episode voyager.....back in time.....question about the cost of the ship.......monney no longer exists........man kind...one goal..to survive bla bla bla bla bla.

that was star trek: first contact;
in the federation, mankind has turned the earth into a utopia. the human race has put aside its capitalist ideals and now works to better themselves, so ships are free to make but only because people do what they do because they want to, NOT because they want to be paid, after all everything is free.

-arcon
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Going OT again... ( so what else is new? )

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the human race has put aside its capitalist ideals and now works to better themselves
people do what they do because they want to, NOT because they want to be paid, after all everything is free

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Welcome to Basic Communism. Too bad Stalin destroyed such a good concept... Ah well, mankind wasn't ready for Communism, there are many reasons for that (requires an essay to cover). But soon...


Edited by - Chetnik on 07-07-2003 04:18:27

what, not at all...communism doesnt work because people are greedy

-arcon
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