/sci/ - Science & Math

Sounds cozy :3

>>12728084
After Apollo NASA shifted from being a space exploration agency to a jobs retainment agency. Every blunder of theirs since then can easily be explained by this

>>12728084
proof omamua was a rock and not an alien artefact?

>>12728084
i know i cant educate you but ill try anyway.

first, sending humans into outer space is way expensive. massively expensive. and risky. very, very risky.

sending robots up to do science jobs is cheap and low risk. you lose a robot, you don't lose any lives.

ppl forget that no other fucking nation on the planet does shit at the level of nasa. how many other nations sent up a hubble space telescope? no one. the iss started out as a purely nasa thing and then was branched out when it became clear itd be too expensive to maintain. space shuttle was pure nasa and it was supposedly one of the factors that bankrupted the ussr when they tried to duplicate it.

nasa just landed a nuclear-powered robot the size of a car onto another planet exactly where they wanted the fucking thing. it's part of a multi-mission effort to bring mars samples back to earth. and that multi-phase mission, combined, will be shit-tons cheaper and less dangerous than a manned mission to mars.

yes, nasa can be full of fuck (forced shit bc of political assholes stressing dollars over quality) but when you let nasa just be nasa, they do a lot of good stuff.

>>12728084
it has a cool logo

>>12728161
Proof you are a person and not a simulation?

>>12728205
>first, sending humans into outer space is way expensive. massively expensive. and risky. very, very risky.
>sending robots up to do science jobs is cheap and low risk. you lose a robot, you don't lose any lives.

Send one habitat to the Moon every couple of years, just one, is one way trip.
Send robots to do the building and exploration.
Send humans when things are ready as well as they can be.
There, is not that difficult, and they had 50 years, half a fucking century.

>>12728084
there's more scientific value for the rock chaser. A moonbase would also be more expensive.

>>12728205
>good stuff

What is good about this that isnt good about star trek? Why do we need to spend billions on something as dead end as space exploration while there is still starvation and poverty. How the fuck does the hubble telescope help anybody except scientists mentally masturbate.

>>12728084
>(((NASAL)))
>>>/x/

space beyond geostationary orbit is a waste of money.

>>12728788
>dead end as space exploration while there is still starvation and poverty
This is not reddit, we cannot upvote your virtue signalling.
Go and use your money and time to help the poor starving people and leave us alone.

>>12728788
Nice bait

>>12728084
>>Let`s launch a mission to a piece of rock that has just entered the solar system and it will be never seen again in a couple of months: YESSSS SWEET!
excuse me wat?

>>12728788
Space exploration dead end. Are you retarded? The amount of space and resources out there is infinite. Its humanity's only hope.

>>12728205
NSA Spy satellites are better than any space telescope. Technical competence is localized at the military.

>>12728821
I'm still mad.

>>12728788
Fuck niggers

>>12728161
We had a legit rendezvous with rama and we fucking missed kt.

>>12729436
To be fair, department of defense budget is just a wee bit higher than nasa's.

>>12728272
This. Make the robots and send them up there for mining and everything. Make a robotic nuclear power plant, all of this stuff has been written about.

>>12728084
Most accurate NASA post ever.