/sci/ - Science & Math

You're right OP. Those pictures of dirt totally justify spending that amount of money. They're much clearer than before.

People wanting to feed the hungry are the problem.

It's too bad that money just disappeared into a black hole and wasn't, you know, recycled back into the economy, otherwise this feat of mind-blowing engineering might have been worth it!

Just remember kids, we can worry about space travel when we fix the problems at home! Because, honestly, what good are literally limitless resources to us anyway?

>tfw we colonize space
>tfw earth is uninhabitable
>tfw space colonization is worth it
>tfw one every star we see in the sky will have a human prescence
>tfw we travel so fast and so far we forgt where earth was
>tfw you will never be a starship navigator

>MFW space exploration leads to clean electricity too cheap to be worth metering for residential customers.

>MFW advanced automation and robotics make labor so cheap that employment as we know it becomes obsolete.

http://launiusr.wordpress.com/2012/02/08/why-explore-space-a-1970-letter-to-a-nun-in-africa/

>>4985177
I wonder if a society with no employment could work. What ever would we do all day?

>the government should spend money on welfare so people don't bother working
lel

NASA creates jobs. Welfare doesn't

>>4985180
>I wonder if a society with no employment could work.
There would probably still be employment, just different jobs. When we become more efficient at some things then we can start doing other things.

>>4985180
Think up more ways to expand our influence. More ways to perfect our science. More ways to enhance our art and literature.

Also i'm, at least 90% certain there would be sex clones and bots everywhere....

>>4985180

People would work to fill a day, or spend it educating themselves, or just fuck around. Even given the choice many people would seek out employment for personal fulfillment and to earn greater resources then they really require.

Yeah, most people wouldn't do much in a post-scarcity environment where they aren't required to.

Most people don't do much now. If Bob no longer has to work at his job at a Footlocker, civilization won't collapse.

If people that could be great thinkers, poets, musicians, scientist and mathematicians didn't have to work at a day job at a footlocker or patent office, they might do a hell of a lot more.

>implying NASA is not a job
>implying this dont consider as education
>implying hungry are not hungry because of their own fault
>implying money are not wasted 100x more on war then on Science

>>4985177
I have to ask, when was the last time ANYTHING became too cheap to meter?