Exoplanet research, prove to me why this isn't the biggest waste of time and money to come out of """nasa"""
Exoplanet research, prove to me why this isn't the biggest waste of time and money to come out of """nasa"""
Hunter Wright
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Brody Jackson
Because it's cool to know stuff?
John Howard
If we send a message that says:
> aye, what's up guys? we from earth n shit, haha hmu
We'd get a response in 2 years
Adrian Hall
It's not a waste. Id rather have tax dollars spent on new discoveries and interesting things instead of welfare and neetbux
Kayden Clark
It's not a waste of money. It keeps the plebs going 'wooaahh' and 'niicceee, aliens', therefore keeps publicly funded science alive. That we, us peeps doing real science can get the necessary funding. It's good distraction. Scientifically almost pointless, yes, but it keeps the people entertained.
Jaxon Nguyen
more like 80 years (40 for our message to reach them and 40 for it to get back) for this particular group of planets
Jeremiah Fisher
Its cool to know what we already knew, exoplanets exist wow such cool.
Yeah but would you rather have nasa not fuck around with your tax dollars and actually put it to better use like manned mars exploration or robot missions to Europa?
David Bennett
> response in 80 years
Probably more. Even if there is an alien civilization that far away, how do you know they're not cavemen? And if they are as advanced as we are what makes you think there's some guy just sitting around waiting eagerly to hit reply.
Half the people on Earth probably have no idea what the fuck that message you type even means, so an alien civilization is going to spend forever trying to figure it out and order to respond properly, their government might even decide not to reply because they might think that humanity is too dangerous, or maybe they're controlled by religious overlords who want to hide the fact of human existence.
Some alien grad student might find the message and just dismiss it by accident, with nobody ever finding out about it or no response ever being sent.
Benjamin Perry
>Yeah but would you rather have nasa not fuck around with your tax dollars and actually put it to better use like manned mars exploration or robot missions to Europa?
How much do we actually know about the cost of this research? As I understand it they're using telescopes that already exist anyways for the most part.
Also even if they put 100% of their funding into a manned mars mission do we know if that would be enough?
Julian Stewart
You mean than in about 40 years an aylium civilization will know that we discovered them?