/sci/ - Science & Math

>>6176529
To send TV signals across the country and world

>>6176529
>Why wouldn't you ever want to go to space?

Fix'd that for you dawg

>>6176529
To know current weather and predict future weather.

Inevitably our sun will run out of fuel, and although the chances of us ever getting off this lonely solar system are slim, we have to try...

>>6176551
The Earth will become toasty and uninhabitable long before the son runs out of fuel.

>>6176549
There's no need?
It's more than mostly, quite literally, empty?

>>6176557
gb2 >>6175864

Space travel is hardly the most important aspect of the economy. We'd do well to reduce NASA's funding.

>>6176551
>>6176557
How does any of that affect current generations?

Realize that 99 percent of the population doesn't give a flying fuck about dancing about in space. There are better ways to spend that tax money.

>>6176563
but the parts that aren't empty are pretty neat

>>6176529
>>$18.724 billion

>muh profit and GDP

fucken kill yourself consumerist scum.

>>6176570
>>6176572
NASA's funding is low as it is, if we're talking about budget cuts, let's look at social security.

>>6176570

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA_spin-off_technologies

>>6176549
I could give you 18.724 billion reasons

>>6176589
I still dont get why we have medicare.

>>6176601
Oh yeah I meant all of that stuff made by Limburger Johnson.

>>6176529

>>6176529
>>$8.5 trillion unaccounted for
Why are we letting the military get away with this?

http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2013/11/8-5-trillion-taxpayer-money-doled-congress-pentagon-since-1996-never-accounted.html

>$672 billion for military expenses
>see your post
>mfw

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_colonization

For this of course. I want to avoid the dumb humans. Start a colony where one can try out other political forms that are currently not possible to try out here.

Of course, going into space colonization is difficult and won't happen for a few decades. But Seasteading is here soon.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seasteading

>>6176638

The failure of seasteading will be direct evidence that the notion of space colonization rests on faulty ideological bedrock.

Because we can. We have evolved to do just that, to explore, discover, tinker and build. Why do we build monuments? Why do we seek to uncover the secrets of the universe?

>>6176529
That's pocket change next to military budgets, and instead of using it to destroy each other that money is opening new frontiers for the human race. It's our future. It'll be costly in the extreme, but we can't stay on Earth forever.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbIZU8cQWXc

The same reason we explore/used to explore places on earth.

Resources, more place to put our stuff in, and for fun.

>>6176529
The sole purpose of going to space is to have a true utopian society. We won't be taking the niggers, spics, sand niggers, chincs or retards.

They can stay here and rot.

>$1.491 TRILLION
Why would you ever want to go to war?

>>6176599
But a bitch ain't one.

>>6176529
>Why would you ever want to go to space?
(a) to leave your ignorant ass behind
(b) because space
(c) Lrn2spacetravelfaget