Spacetravel

[Anonymous No.7356585]

Someone near you says: "We shouldn't spent money on space exploration, that money could be used better on earth."

What do you do?

[Anonymous No.7356593]

I harass them for using poor grammar.

The opinions of little people are not important.

[Anonymous No.7356595]

>>7356585
Space exploration doesn't directly hurt people unlike military.

[Anonymous No.7356601]

>>7356595
challenger

[Anonymous No.7356612]

Honestly I don't care about space exploration. We have more important problems to solve here. NASA is basically just for funsies. The space exploration part anyway. It's can't justify spending billions on exploring the moon when Detroit is as shitty as it is also considering how much aid we give to other countries.

[Anonymous No.7356619]

>>7356612
>he doesn't want to rebuild detroit on Mars

[Anonymous No.7356631]

>>7356619
That would cost so much more than rebuilding it here. Who cares about setting up colonies and shit on Mars right now? There's no good reason.

[Anonymous No.7356647]

>>7356631
What about the ever growing population. New generations also need food, water and shelter. And the world is running out of resources.

[Anonymous No.7356649]

>>7356631
>who cares?
This guy


Tbh, everything we do is vain. So why not waste some money on something awesome.

The possiblity of working in aerospeace engineering is the only thing keeping me motivated in college. It's one of the few things I find exciting.

[Anonymous No.7356652]

>>7356631
>>7356649
forgot pic

[Anonymous No.7356662]

>>7356631
and by the way. We waste so much money on stupid shit, it wouldn't make a difference.

[Anonymous No.7356673]

>>7356585
Ignore them.

No matter what evidence you provide, you're not going to change their opinion.

[Anonymous No.7356690]

>>7356585
Say you have 10$. Spending the money on earth is like buying a pizza. Spending the money on space exploration is like putting the money into the bank, waiting a few hundered and then be able to afford a couple of million pizzas.

[Anonymous No.7356694]

>>7356601
One might argue that they weren't exploring space. Ayyoo...

[Anonymous No.7356696]

>>7356690
inb4: "so feeding starving african kids is like buying pizza for you?
you are such a inconsiderate asshole anon."

[Anonymous No.7356702]

agree

[Anonymous No.7356713]

What is humanity without dreams?
Better suffer here a bit in the expense of space exploration.
Won't it be embarrassing when an alien race visits earth and we haven't been on any planet but ours in the very solar system we are in?
We don't even know Pluto's orbit fully

[Anonymous No.7356734]

>>7356647
>What about the ever growing population
This is a lie in most good countries though. Unless you count immigration as an increase.

[Anonymous No.7356741]

>>7356713
>What is humanity without dreams?
Is a world with no starving children or a clean environment, not dreamy enough for you?
>Won't it be embarrassing when an alien race visits earth and we haven't been on any planet but ours in the very solar system we are in?
what a bad argument. The idea of maybe being embarrassed by a hypothetical alien race visiting us, won't motivate anyone to fund space travel.

[Anonymous No.7356746]

>>7356585
You agree with them because it's fucking true that it's a gigantic waste of money. That is unless it's for asteroid mining, which is the only thing we should be focused on right now. Other projects are better done after we've used an economical approach to get our foot in the door.

Think money, people. It always comes down to money.

[Anonymous No.7356756]

>>7356746
>think money
>wants to mine asteroids

you are retarded.

[Anonymous No.7356765]

I point out that money isn't used well on Earth.

[Anonymous No.7356782]

>>7356741
> a world with no starving children or a clean environment
this is all fine but what is teh end game here?
it doesn't inspire any excitement keeping the human race going just to keep it going. there should be some grander purpose, urge for discovery and general curiosity for instance

[Anonymous No.7356797]

>>7356612
you my friend don't understand teh true implications of space travel

[Anonymous No.7356800]

>>7356734
Yeah. Unless you count an increasing population as an increasing population

[Anonymous No.7356804]

A muay thai low kick should be enough.

[Anonymous No.7356884]

>>7356585
* Sidekick technologies: Teflon, medical imaging, telecommunication, ....
* Exploration of space directly contributes to answer the age-old question "Why are we here?", Deep understanding of atmospheres directly benefits us here on Earth
*Also puts religious morons in their place. Ofc if it's a religious moron saying that, just smile.

What do I do?
Smile at them for being pleb

[Anonymous No.7356939]

>>7356800
>I moved some of my M&Ms from one cup to another
>Now I have more M&Ms

[Anonymous No.7356954]

Very little is spent on space exploration to begin with. More should be spent. There are plenty of other stupid fucking things that people are allocating money for. So many individuals that waste their money on lottery tickets, heavily taxed cigarettes, etc. Do they really have any right to complain about 0.5% of the federal budget being spent on NASA?

[Anonymous No.7356960]

>>7356585
Stop hanging around ignorant and shortsighted fucks.

[Anonymous No.7356980]

>>7356585

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2015/06/150623-sixth-extinction-kolbert-animals-conservation-science-world/

show them this and tell them how fucked we are if we don't get the hell outta dodge

[Anonymous No.7356988]

>>7356980
I don't get how that managed to be big news. Everyone should have known that we were endangering species left and right.

[Anonymous No.7356997]

>>7356988

Its like a doctor telling you that if you dont quit smoking you will get cancer. You dont stop and get it, then you panic

[Anonymous No.7357006]

>>7356585
They are moralfags

[Anonymous No.7357009]

>>7356585
>This world is already fucked, we must evacuate.

At this point i put on my flying goggles and trench coat and fly away.

[Anonymous No.7357483]

>>7356988
>that managed to be big news
because Kolbert got a Pulitzer

[Anonymous No.7357593]

>>7356734
Doesn't matter if it is plateauing. It needs to decline. We are still overpopulated as fuck.

With that being said the money being spent on space programs is still pennies in the grand scheme of things. When the time comes there will be 3 possible scenarios: a) world powers wage war over resources. B) the majority of the world comes together and dumps all our money into preserving the human race on earth. C) the majority of the world comes together and dumps money into preserving the human race in space.

[Anonymous No.7357595]

>>7356585
I tell them to go fuck themselves because nobody wants to spend money feeding niggers in africa

[Anonymous No.7357600]

Lord and savior right here

[Anonymous No.7360184]

>>7357600
n1