The space launchings aren't putting food on your table.

[pattu1]

The space launchings can be compared to the weapons race back in the 70's and 80's - the US wants to be the first, bu the Russians, Chinese and Indians wants to.

Nope, now countries have realized that quite a bit of money is being spent on these programs with no tangible benefits.
In the past, there was pride attached to space programs. Now countries have realized that it doesn't matter.

[Biomech]

Space may be the final frontier
But it's made in a Hollywood basement
Cobain can you hear the spheres
Singing songs off station to station
And Alderon's not far away
It's Californication

---Red Hot Chili Peppers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KaOC9danxNo

Space Oddity performed by Commander Chris Hadfield.

Can you watch this and honest say this isn't a professional actor/performer on a set with a production crew?

This old music video by Peter Schilling captures the divergent views discussed in this thread....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1Hs2AQwDgA

Huh?  Hatfield has been doing music a long time.  Along with being a fighter pilot, astronaut and having other talents.

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

"Space Stupidity: Chris Actfields Fake Life"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItsuIdUqxq8

Well, if you did want to send people to Mars, it might just be useful to have an experience base with men and women living in space for six month periods.  Like in the ISS....

There are no men living in space.

#ISSHOAX

The Troll is strong with this one... You can see ISS with a strong pair of binoculars.

[notbatman]

Space may be the final frontier
But it's made in a Hollywood basement
Cobain can you hear the spheres
Singing songs off station to station
And Alderon's not far away
It's Californication

---Red Hot Chili Peppers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KaOC9danxNo

Space Oddity performed by Commander Chris Hadfield.

Can you watch this and honest say this isn't a professional actor/performer on a set with a production crew?

This old music video by Peter Schilling captures the divergent views discussed in this thread....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1Hs2AQwDgA

Huh?  Hatfield has been doing music a long time.  Along with being a fighter pilot, astronaut and having other talents.

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

"Space Stupidity: Chris Actfields Fake Life"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItsuIdUqxq8

Well, if you did want to send people to Mars, it might just be useful to have an experience base with men and women living in space for six month periods.  Like in the ISS....

There are no men living in space.

#ISSHOAX

The Troll is strong with this one... You can see ISS with a strong pair of binoculars.

You honestly think a 350' object is visible at a distance of 250 miles with a pair of binoculars?

[YoonYeonghwa]

We need to conquer another moon. That is definitely why.

[ridery99]

I hope NASA will be shut down so that Chinese and Russians can put all kinds of weaponry orbiting above the US  
Then US can't no longer do what ever it wants.

[Spendulus]

Space may be the final frontier
But it's made in a Hollywood basement
Cobain can you hear the spheres
Singing songs off station to station
And Alderon's not far away
It's Californication

---Red Hot Chili Peppers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KaOC9danxNo

Space Oddity performed by Commander Chris Hadfield.

Can you watch this and honest say this isn't a professional actor/performer on a set with a production crew?

This old music video by Peter Schilling captures the divergent views discussed in this thread....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1Hs2AQwDgA

Huh?  Hatfield has been doing music a long time.  Along with being a fighter pilot, astronaut and having other talents.

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

"Space Stupidity: Chris Actfields Fake Life"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItsuIdUqxq8

Well, if you did want to send people to Mars, it might just be useful to have an experience base with men and women living in space for six month periods.  Like in the ISS....

There are no men living in space.

#ISSHOAX

The Troll is strong with this one... You can see ISS with a strong pair of binoculars.

You honestly think a 350' object is visible at a distance of 250 miles with a pair of binoculars?

What, would you like someone to explain to how the total lumen count of said object, and its apparent brightness at various distances?

Wait, there's an easier way.  ISS is pretty darn bright.

By the way, do you .... "honestly think?"

I'm not seeing any evidence...

[Schleicher]

Here you can see how bright the ISS is:

ISS transit and moon by ☰☵ Michele  M.  F., (Flickr)

[ridery99]

Space may be the final frontier
But it's made in a Hollywood basement
Cobain can you hear the spheres
Singing songs off station to station
And Alderon's not far away
It's Californication

---Red Hot Chili Peppers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KaOC9danxNo

Space Oddity performed by Commander Chris Hadfield.

Can you watch this and honest say this isn't a professional actor/performer on a set with a production crew?

This old music video by Peter Schilling captures the divergent views discussed in this thread....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1Hs2AQwDgA

Huh?  Hatfield has been doing music a long time.  Along with being a fighter pilot, astronaut and having other talents.

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

"Space Stupidity: Chris Actfields Fake Life"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItsuIdUqxq8

Well, if you did want to send people to Mars, it might just be useful to have an experience base with men and women living in space for six month periods.  Like in the ISS....

There are no men living in space.

#ISSHOAX

The Troll is strong with this one... You can see ISS with a strong pair of binoculars.

You honestly think a 350' object is visible at a distance of 250 miles with a pair of binoculars?

What, would you like someone to explain to how the total lumen count of said object, and its apparent brightness at various distances?

Wait, there's an easier way.  ISS is pretty darn bright.

By the way, do you .... "honestly think?"

I'm not seeing any evidence...

It's easier to watch it here:
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/live-iss-stream

[notbatman]

So tell me, every time I destroy your globe earth arguments and make a mockery of your retarded lie do they demote you a level? If I crush enough arguments can I create a level -1 mason?

[Biomech]

So tell me, every time I destroy your globe earth arguments and make a mockery of your retarded lie do they demote you a level? If I crush enough arguments can I create a level -1 mason?

Crush one and we'll find out.

[WhatTheGox]

I need to know what the point of spending thousands of US dollars on space trips is meant for. I don't know what we've accomplished and found beneficial to society and the overall growth of human living by having money and such being tossed for the government to send random men up into space. I don't understand why space travel is so necessary. Please tell me how the moon launchings weren't fake, or needed for the human race.

Its so the rich people can go off and live in space when they've messed up our planet most likely, mean time they make us pay for it.  I'd like to see humanity just pause for a second and sort out the problems on our own planet then worry about space travel.

[galdur]

NASA has discovered some clusters at the edge of the galaxy which may have alien life. I guess it´s dozens of thousands of light years away making it pretty useless knowledge.

[Biomech]

I need to know what the point of spending thousands of US dollars on space trips is meant for. I don't know what we've accomplished and found beneficial to society and the overall growth of human living by having money and such being tossed for the government to send random men up into space. I don't understand why space travel is so necessary. Please tell me how the moon launchings weren't fake, or needed for the human race.

Its so the rich people can go off and live in space when they've messed up our planet most likely, mean time they make us pay for it.  I'd like to see humanity just pause for a second and sort out the problems on our own planet then worry about space travel.

The problem with that is that it don't work. If we look at history, we find that humanity solves the most problems when there is a frontier. In our modern world, there are really only two, with nearly equal challenges at the beginning. The first is the oceans. We can expand into the oceans, and like space, it's an alien environment in which we will have to develop new technologies and new refinements to existing technologies.

So how does that improve the situation for the rest of humanity, in either case?

Those refinements and technological improvements get adapted. For instance, for seasteads you pretty much have to develop multiple ways to produce fresh water and electric power in a small and self contained area. I don't think it will stretch anyone's imagination too much to see how this would benefit humanity in general.

The flip side of this, historically, has been that the frontier was inhabited by other humans, deemed "undesirable" by conquerors and pilgrims. Near space eliminates THAT problem as it's unihabited, and the technological challenges are far greater, so likely the advances that come home will be too.

Or we can turn our backs on these challenges, stagnate and die out.

[Spendulus]

NASA has discovered some clusters at the edge of the galaxy which may have alien life. I guess it´s dozens of thousands of light years away making it pretty useless knowledge.

After you decode the messages let us know if it is useless.

[galdur]

Don´t miss it

Moonwalkers (2015)

Directed by Antoine Bardou-Jacquet. With Rupert Grint, Ron Perlman, Robert Sheehan, Stephen Campbell

https://www.solarmovie.ph/watch-moonwalkers-2015.html

[Tyrantt]

I need to know what the point of spending thousands of US dollars on space trips is meant for. I don't know what we've accomplished and found beneficial to society and the overall growth of human living by having money and such being tossed for the government to send random men up into space. I don't understand why space travel is so necessary. Please tell me how the moon launchings weren't fake, or needed for the human race.

Not now, but in the future we might be putting our food on the table on some other planet. Who knows, we are merely scratching the surface of this world and space we live in.

[MONGOLOIN21]

Ships go to space. Mine asteroid rock. Then $$$

[Anddos]

There have beet a lot of technological advancements from getting into space. Space is full of resources. Other planets as well. Mars. Even the Moon. In our lifetime I think we'll be able to see Mars colonized. Earth won't remain habitable for ever. It's important to start dislodging our roots while things are still calm.

[Nemo1024]

Would be American loonar landings were mentioned in this thread. Well...

Chinese Lunar Rover Finds No Evidence of American Moon Landings
http://tapnewswire.com/2015/12/chinese-lunar-rover-finds-no-evidence-of-american-moon-landings/

December 17, 2015

by Don Campbell


By SGTreport
the American Media Didn’t Report on This One?! Chinese Lunar Rover Finds No Evidence of American Moon Landings
From World News Daily Report:

Beijing – Top officials of the Chinese Space Program have expressed their feelings that the American moon landings “were a complete hoax” reports the Beijing Daily Express.

200 high-ranking officials from the Chinese Space Program have signed a petition asking explanations from the American government and the release of classified NASA information concerning the American moon landings that would prove to the World that the moon landings were not an elaborately orchestrated hoax to fool the World about America’s space program capabilities.

These allegations have come up through recent analysis of pictures taken from the Chinese moon rover that allegedly found no traces of the American moon landings existing on the moon.

World renowned Russian nuclear engineer Yury Ignatyevich Mukhin has also signed the petition as well as a dozen other top Russian engineers and ex-KGB agents claiming the Russian Government “had always been aware of the situation since the early 1970′s”

...

[Spendulus]

Would be American loonar landings were mentioned in this thread. Well...

Chinese Lunar Rover Finds No Evidence of American Moon Landings
http://tapnewswire.com/2015/12/chinese-lunar-rover-finds-no-evidence-of-american-moon-landings/

December 17, 2015

by Don Campbell


By SGTreport
the American Media Didn’t Report on This One?! Chinese Lunar Rover Finds No Evidence of American Moon Landings
From World News Daily Report:

Beijing – Top officials of the Chinese Space Program have expressed their feelings that the American moon landings “were a complete hoax” reports the Beijing Daily Express.

200 high-ranking officials from the Chinese Space Program have signed a petition asking explanations from the American government and the release of classified NASA information concerning the American moon landings that would prove to the World that the moon landings were not an elaborately orchestrated hoax to fool the World about America’s space program capabilities.

These allegations have come up through recent analysis of pictures taken from the Chinese moon rover that allegedly found no traces of the American moon landings existing on the moon.

World renowned Russian nuclear engineer Yury Ignatyevich Mukhin has also signed the petition as well as a dozen other top Russian engineers and ex-KGB agents claiming the Russian Government “had always been aware of the situation since the early 1970′s”

...

...From the "article"...

The findings were even more disappointing for the scientists who created the probe. They had equipped Jade Rabbit with special cutting tools for shredding any American flags it found and replacing them with China’s own. Special legs were also fitted so that the rover could sidle up to remnants of any American spacecraft and kick it and kick it and kick it in the most contemptuous manner possible.