Eliminate NASA, Privatize the Space Program

[quote name='RAMSTORIA']http://archives.chicagotribune.com/2007/mar/05/business/chi-0703050135mar05

article about nasa invention myths. turns out a lot of things credited to nasa were invented before and just gained fame because of nasa.[/QUOTE]

True, but you could still attribute their place in society today in part to the good PR it received from its use in the Space Program.

Nevertheless, a large number of the things on that list are inventions of NASA, which owns about 6,300 patents.

~HotShotX
 
I agree with HotshotX on this one. Although NASA may look like another government sinecure (look it up), its doing the research which could propel another giant leap for mankind. Its work is for everyone- not just Americans- to increase what little we know in the world in the universe.

In all, I have no problem with the federal government spending money on National Security or Scientific Funding (including NASA). But perhaps NASA should work more with reliable private companies as involving more intellectuals could foster improvements from its current state.


P.S. I was expecting more "intelligent life" believers here on the CAGs. That and a reference to Dr. Brackish Okun.
 
We can't get rid of NASA. Who would give us data to prove that we're warming the planet and making holes in the ozone layer? Computer modeling only dupes some of the people.
 
[quote name='tivo']I agree with HotshotX on this one. Although NASA may look like another government sinecure (look it up), its doing the research which could propel another giant leap for mankind. Its work is for everyone- not just Americans- to increase what little we know in the world in the universe.

In all, I have no problem with the federal government spending money on National Security or Scientific Funding (including NASA). But perhaps NASA should work more with reliable private companies as involving more intellectuals could foster improvements from its current state.
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Agree 100%. Of all the things my tax dollars go towards, efforts toward science and improving knowledge are probably the ones I support the most.
 
[quote name='bmulligan']We can't get rid of NASA. Who would give us data to prove that we're warming the planet and making holes in the ozone layer? Computer modeling only dupes some of the people.[/QUOTE]

I think the best thing NASA did this year was fixing Hubble. That telescope has made a Copernican/Gailean type leap forward in understanding the universe and it's origins. Every picture I've seen from Hubble has been breathtaking and I can't imagine how we got by without it.

It's also lead to the greatest leap in precision mapmaking in human history. We've gone from rudimentary maps of our galaxy and those nearby to nearly 10X that scope. We now know that there's structure even larger than galaxies. We knew our Sun orbited the center of the Milky Way. Now we know that the Milky Way, Andromeda, and several other galaxies orbit a center of gravity known as the Local Group. Not only that, but the Local Group orbits with the Virgo Group and several other groups around a center of gravity known as the Virgo Supercluster.

But I guess none of that is real since the Earth is only 6000 years old and God created it in six days.
 
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[quote name='depascal22']But I guess none of that is real since the Earth is only 6000 years old and God created it in six days.[/QUOTE]

You just took a description of distance, rotation, and location, and compared it against time. That was a pretty poor argument, and sarcasm aside, how did religion get interjected into this?

Also, in regards to bmulligan's post, it's already been scientifically proven that the Solid Rocket Boosters used by NASA contribute the largest destruction to the Ozone layer. The thing is, it's still so insignificant that it can hardly be called a threat.

Global Warming IS happening, but whether it's the effect of us coming out of an ice age, or whether we are actually having a significant effect on it is what's debatable.

All that aside, let's stay on topic.

~HotShotX
 
I was just being a sarcastic ass.

That being said, Hubble has still provided us with some of the greatest scientific advances in the last 50 years but I guess that doesn't matter because I made one sarcastic remark to counter another sarcastic remark. My comments about Hubble are on topic. It was an engineering and scientific feat without comparison.

Besides, we're arguing on a gaming internet forum. The arguments don't have to pass a rhetorical purity test.

Oh, and didn't Einstein's Theory of Special Relativity prove that space and time are inextricably linked anyway? Guess that doesn't matter either a sarcastic remark about time and the age of the planet/universe can't have any bearing about an argument about the size, shape, and structure of the universe.
 
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