Dear Sneha ji!!
I too really wonder "What if there are traces of water in Red planet..... I should have ample water in my city"
"What if some planet comes in between two planets(occult..).... I should bother if anyone comes in between me and my friend"
But.. this is not the right thought.We need to have curiosity to learn new things,exploring new things only then life becomes wonderful,so scientists belong to this category of people who want to know something about heavens ....We need to understand the beauty of those expolrations only then we can feel for it.
I feel like posting this here:
However each idea,each necessity and want is relative.Whatever is a luxury to me may be a damn important necessity to you.So everything is relative.
Have a glance at this:
Cheers,
Mythili
Edited by mythili_Kiran - 17 years agoGOSH! Not againnnnnnnnnnn π
I have got the some rebuttals... again π . After this... I won't post Rebuttals here in this thread π³ π
[quote=Dr Uncle]1, The resources put into studies of things here on planet Earth are in Millions. The resources put into space are in Billions.[/quote]
Creation of the Internet: The USSR's launch of Sputnik spurred the United States to create the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA, later known as the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA) in February 1958 to regain a technological lead. ARPA created the Information Processing Technology Office (IPTO) to further the research of the Semi Automatic Ground Environment (SAGE) program, which had networked country-wide radar systems together for the first time. J. C. R. Licklider was selected to head the IPTO, and saw universal networking as a potential unifying human revolution.
After much work, the first node went live at UCLA on October 29, 1969 on what would be called the ARPANET, one of the "eve" networks of today's Internet
[Source: Wikipedia]
This research took billions too...
[quote=Dr Uncle]2, Do we have to land on Mars or determine the nature of rings of Saturn to have GPS in our cars or get live sattelite telecasted televised events or know about the holes in ozone layer?
3,Why is it that the same instruments that were developed for astronuats first and then became part of everyday activity were not developed for common people to begin with?[/quote]
Space exploration has also led to many indirect benefits. The challenge and difficulty of the space programme, and its ability to draw on some of the finest minds, has brought about great leaps in technology. The need to reduce weight on rockets led to miniaturisation, and so to the micro-chip and the modern computer. The need to produce safe but efficient power-sources for the Apollo missions led to the development of practical fuel-cells, which are now being explored as a possible future power-source for cleaner cars. The effects of zero-gravity on astronauts has substantially added to our knowledge of the workings of the human body, and the ageing process. We can never know exactly which benefits will emerge from the space programme in future, but we do know that we will constantly meet new obstacles in pursuit of our goals, and in overcoming them will find new solutions to old problems. [Source: Space Exploration Debate]
Hence.. for every Major discovery.. small discoveries are made for them... Necessity is the mother of invention π
Dr Uncle... i would agree to disagree here... π
Happy Debating! π
Abhijit ji!!First you need to take a break.You are walking soo much and please give some time to your brain to think!!!
See !!! If Leaders in India think "Ayyo!!! Still somany people are not having basic aminities like pizza,makhan ,pasta ,nastha and cell ;Why should we bother about Information technology,Space technology...." then India might have been an underdeveloped country,now at least India is trying to maintain its status as "developing country".So I feel research and development should go hand in hand .Common man has nothing to do with research as he is not part of that research but he needs to wait to enjoy the fruits of research.
Cheers,
Mythili
Dr Abhijit I don't want to pick a fight...just address these three points and I will be happy as a pig in pile of dirt!
So by making this post ,Yo!!! I feel like a modern day's Abraham Lincoln getting out of his vehicle to help a pig come out of gutterπ
Edited by mythili_Kiran - 17 years agoHere we go. This is Deja Vu all over again.
1, The resources put into studies of things here on planet Earth are in Millions. The resources put into space are in Billions.
2, Do we have to land on Mars or determine the nature of rings of Saturn to have GPS in our cars or get live sattelite telecasted televised events or know about the holes in ozone layer?
3,Why is it that the same instruments that were developed for astronuats first and then became part of everyday activity were not developed for common people to begin with?
I don't want to pick a fight...just address these three points and I will be happy as a pig in pile of dirt!
Many a times it is a good idea to step away from a problem, get a bigger picture, and then look for a solution.
Space exploration is one of those things
If you think of things on earth, you get personal, get a lot of hinderances thrown in your path, such as religion, region, nationality, etc.
With Space research you are almost trying to solve an abstract problem, whatever good comes out of it, certainly gets extrapolated to things on this planet itself
Ok
Also side notes, We are fast eating up into the resources on this planet, and will soon need be out of it and more importantly for me, I am curious as to where certain people came fromπ