mr.guy said:
Just heard a neat cbc program querying the validity of human space exploration.
http://radio.cbc.ca/programs/quirks/archives/05-06/nov19.html
There's a link to listen to the program as well, available as of 2:00pm eastern time.
For anyone who listens to the program (or at least reads the synopsis), i wonder how many you think there is any use in sending people into space?
Personally, I have always had a prejudice against space exploration of any kind.
I hardly ever find people who agree with me, but in my book, "Charity begins at home".
When we think back to the pre Russia days, Ie The USSR says, money was always available for space research, even if the bulk of the population lived in conditions we would never want to even think of.
"that human space flight is about adventure."
The Earth has not yet been fully explored - the oceans are, to my mind, fascinating, and have much to offer. We have hardly
really explored them.
"Canada's first female astronaut, and a research neurologist, points out that one of the most valuable things we've learned from human space travel is how the human body responds in zero gravity"......I would be interested to know how many trillions of $ have been spent to dicover the effects of zero gravity on the human body.........
I obviously read too far, because I became esconsed in Women Brewmasters and snapping Snapping Spaghetti; I was begining to think there was something strange going on..................
As for the benefits learned through space exploration, well, I am not sure as to the
real validity of the contribution to society.