Agreed 100% with you there. It's just like a math function. People don't care about all the little steps to get an output from an input, they just want to get the output asap.AjimboB said:See, that's the problem. What you're describing isn't a tangible goal, because the sun exploding is SOO far off that no one in the world can care to think that far ahead.Jesus Phish said:I've always thought the best goal for space travel is so that when the time comes, humanity wont be destroyed by our sun going nova on us.AjimboB said:The problem that the space program faces is a lack of tangible goals. The reason people used to care about NASA was because of the cold war, and the goal of NASA was to beat the soviets, and show American dominance and supremacy through science. Since the Soviet Union collapsed, the US hasn't had an enemy on the same technological level as us, so most people no longer care about progressing technology, unless it's being made by Apple.
The thing about people is that most of them have no foresight, and don't care about the future. This is the EXACT SAME reason for America's recent economic collapse, people not caring about the future, borrowing and spending money that they don't have, with a live now, care later kind of attitude.
When people don't have a direct, tangible goal for the future, they forget that the future even exists, which is why this program is being shut down. This is sad.
Even a goal like "manned mission to Mars within 20 years" is difficult for most people to grasp. People want their goals to be baby steps, yet at the same time, to somehow be significant, which is the basic problem faced by the space program, because the baby steps seem insignificant to people who don't understand the principles behind space travel, yet are fundamentally necessary for the final goal.
You either don't know many racists or you are one.JoeyMousepadd said:I don't understand how asking for proof of where Obama was born is racist.
Even if it does make you the bad guy, the trick is to remember, they get things done. Good guys, keep the status quo in place.MovieBob said:Once Upon a Time in The Future
This week, Bob rants about the abandonment of the Space Shuttle program.
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Fixed. But this is the best point made so far.the antithesis said:Take my word for it, this will never happen unless an unobtanium deposit is found. Only then will space travel become interesting again.
It took one post for the dismantlement of the space program to be blamed upon Justin Bieber.Onyx Oblivion said:Poor Bob.
It fell out of the media spotlight, Bob. That's all that happened. The media would rather give Justin Beiber a music award, or show pictures of racist right-wing idiots, or talk about how to shop safely on Black Friday.
Our sun going nova on us is so incredibly far down the track that its probable humanity wont even exist then (like billions of years). A more realistic, and probable, scenario is humanity using up all of earth's natural resources or destroying the planet beyond repair. That could happen in a hundred years, not like our sun going nova.Jesus Phish said:I've always thought the best goal for space travel is so that when the time comes, humanity wont be destroyed by our sun going nova on us.AjimboB said:The problem that the space program faces is a lack of tangible goals. The reason people used to care about NASA was because of the cold war, and the goal of NASA was to beat the soviets, and show American dominance and supremacy through science. Since the Soviet Union collapsed, the US hasn't had an enemy on the same technological level as us, so most people no longer care about progressing technology, unless it's being made by Apple.
The thing about people is that most of them have no foresight, and don't care about the future. This is the EXACT SAME reason for America's recent economic collapse, people not caring about the future, borrowing and spending money that they don't have, with a live now, care later kind of attitude.
When people don't have a direct, tangible goal for the future, they forget that the future even exists, which is why this program is being shut down. This is sad.