Why should we spend money on space exploration when we have so many problems here on planet Earth?

Why should we spend money on space exploration when we have so many problems here on planet Earth?

So we can make problems happen on other planets too.

Why should we spend money on problems here on Earth when we could explore space?

The money spent space exploration is negligible. Question is void.

Why should you buy a computer or smartphone and pay an internet bill when there are starving kids in Africa that would gladly eat your electronic device

Besides being relatively peanuts, the usual answer is the counter-question, "Why should Europe have sent sailing ships across the Atlantic when they had so many problems on their own continent?"

I might also mention that people were strongly influenced by that picture of the tiny Earth rising above the horizon on the Moon as the Apollo capsule came around. Several billion of us all on that Little Blue Dot. Made people think. You'll note that wide-spread interest in Ecology stems from that period. The photo wasn't the only thing, of course, but it's widely considered to have hammered the notion into public consciousness.

>Besides being relatively peanuts, the usual answer is the counter-question, "Why should Europe have sent sailing ships across the Atlantic when they had so many problems on their own continent?"

Its not as if that turned out well. America is a shithole. Why make another planet a shithole?

The third world niggers are our greatest environmental problem now.

We need to seize means of all that trash, so they have nothing to play with. And they can't burn anything. Than make some robots that will clean coasts. Also Ebola.

... It's like that trash have more value than their lives. Sad.

Because starving people need to starve elsewhere.

Heard a story once about an Englishman riding a train across mid-America.
Mile after endless mile of wheat fields.
He suddenly swore, "Damn George the Third!!!"

holyshit user

>Why should we spend money on space exploration
Because some of us desperately want to leave this planet permanently.
I demand my own asteroid so I can be alone and do some mining. I need some helper bots and a good supply of whiskey.

>implying money spent on space travek goes away.

>"Why should we spend money on space exploration when we have so many problems here on planet Earth?"

As if we're actually spending money on space exploration...

NASA budget for 2018 - $19.1 billion with a 1% decrease.

U.S Military budget for 2018 - $700 billion with 2.4% increase.

>"We're wasting trillions of tax payers dollars on fake CGI images and NASA fakery, this is fucking treasonous!" - Every Flat Earther ever

Never one peep about the defense/military budget.

Lots of people have and do actually, please listen to president Eisenhower's farewell speech.

Because the Earth will not be here forever, reguardless of how many or few problems exist on it. Stephen Hawking estimates we have about 100 years to make a self sustaining extraterrestrial colony if we want the human race to continue. He is just guessing though, the end could come much later than that, or possibly next week.

If you are one of those nihilistic people who say “fuck the human race let us all die anyway” then you have a fair point. However, if you believe the species is worth preserving, I reserve the right to shoot you in the kneecaps during Armageddon for saying the space travel budget should be spent on fixing our social issues.

We also waste a lot of money with niggers.

Fuck off

>Stephen Hawking estimates we have about 100 years to make a self sustaining extraterrestrial colony if we want the human race to continue
I'd like to see his calculations.

I'm well aware of Einsenhower's warning about the military industrial complex. What I meant was that Flat Earthers always bitch and whine about how NASA is "stealing billions of tax payer dollars to fake Space" and accuse NASA of treason.

But never mention how the military is fucking devouring our federal budgets.

your image is backwards. 60% of the budget is welfare

Kek at this 2D-gripping lonely pol-cuck replying to his own posts. Jesus, you need some high level of self-gradification, friend. I hope you go outside at least sometimes.

I agree with you but i also feel I must mention that the way that you say is less than great, the militart budget being out of control doesnt mean that we shouldnt look into other issues. The earth is round though and NASA is worth investing in, lets deal with real issues.

Those niggaz will someday be kangz, tho.

If you think it's better to waste money with niggers instead of investing in scientific research and environmental policies, then this is not you board.

Sure. Most niggers barely pass the mirror test.

Like i said, its an estimate. I have no clue how he arrived at it but it doesnt matter. There will come a day where Earth is completely fucked. Its happened before, its only a matter of time before it happens again. It wont matter how many starving Ethiopian children have been fed, if Earth is the only place humans inhabit, there goes millions of years of evolutionary progress. But hey, at least everyone had a full stomach as they choke to death on the ashes.

I'm the first one only.

Dealing with Flat Earth isn't an issue, it's a pastime.

And I support progressive reforms of our government as well as investing in scientific policies. The U.S has fallen behind on the world stage because of these pointless wars of corporate imperialism in the Middle East and we should be pursue better goals than what the current government is doing.

>using a strawman comic about something that consumes less than either welfare or medicare
>thinking $719.1 billion is a huge portion of the budget in comparison to other programs
>legitimately thinking the budget is only $1.26 trillion

Get a load of yourself kid. Spending is far higher than that.

Because the white man's burden will objectively lead to the destruction of humanity and likely the planet.
We wised up.

Well next time we'll know to make sure the 2nd amendment is clear enough even a libtard can understand and spell out the immigration procedures. Also you won't be considered "college educated" unless you have a STEM degree.

>Never one peep about the defense/military budget.
You're a nigger faggot. Stop inflating numbers by comparing mandatory to mandatory and discretionary spending.

If you compare like to like, welfare/leftism is double the cost of the military, no matter how you slice it.

>You're a nigger faggot.
Why the homophobia?

>tfw if we cure aging and put a border wall, hellfire-equipped drones and a human catapult on the Rio Grande, we'll fully balance the budget overnight

>Why the homophobia?
Among other things, because they are the primary contributing factor to anti-viral resistant diseases.

Don't forget to deport the niggers to Liberia.

Because sodomites are a public health problem.

>giving the ZANU more soldiers
What is wrong with you?

You do know that the federal budget is big enough to allow for investment in the sciences and aiding of minorities, right?

He's got a point; Start up the rotors.

Go a bit more west and a bit more south friend.

>west
>WEST
God dammit, East.

If they aren't smart enough to know what country they are in without communist propaganda, do you think that even matters?

We bought those black people with good American dollars and fought to keep them after the rednecks starting breeding them like rabbits.

They're ours. Africa has plenty of its own.

We have the technology to make more efficient mechanical niggers. We have no need for them anymore.

True, true. I gave them too high of an expectation.

Why should we give money to niggers? These creatures only bring violence and disorder. They are absolutely incapable of living in a human society.
Give money to East Asians and other minorities that actually contribute to mankind.

What... The Actual... Fuck...

The jews brought them.

>"These creatures"

Go live with the niggers then. Your opinion will change.

You people are from /pol/ are you...

>t nigger with coconut problems

Fuck you

what the fuck is that

SJWs cannot have a civilized discussion without resorting to insults. Sad!

That's a nigger.

I'm not a fucking SJW. I'm a Centrist. I came here to this thread to a civilized debate over environmentalism and politics, but instead it's turned into an alt right circlejerk! What the fuck are you fuckers doing here, this board is not for you. Veeky Forums is a place to discuss scientific topic. You fuckers have your own board, stop fucking ruining every single discussion we fucking have. GET THE FUCK OFF OF Veeky Forums AND GO BACK TO YOUR OWN FUCKING BOARD!!!

> I came here to this thread to a civilized debate (...)

No, you are being very impolite. Can you stop using the f-word, please.

I'm sorry. I can't stands these idiots. I wanted to discuss politics in science but then the "nigger" comments started to flood the thread.

Thats all this place is now, half of ppsts are about how niggers are sub-human or how the jews did everything thats bad. /pol/ is the higest trafgic board on Veeky Forums and that means many people on ither boards are /pol/tards.

Yeah well, it thought that the majority of /pol/tards could be contain in /pol/.

Because friggin corruption is everywhere. Most of the world's greatest problems (famine, for example, or massively wide-spread diseases which cause epidemia) can be solved with a smarter distribution of many and change in tax collection systems. That's why. They may all be as well as solved if not for shithole country governments which put our money in their pockets to have a bigger pool in which drown their asses.
Humanity is going nowhere if no investments are done in science. The corrupt human nature and egocentrism is to blame for world problems, not lack of money.

>calls him a nigger right off the bat
>"SJWs cannot have a civilized discussion without resorting to insults."
What hell is wrong with you people?

Welcome to Veeky Forums, my friend.

>I'm a centrist
>I came to Veeky Forums to
Shitpost with cartoon Eris pictures? Eris the goddess of chaos. Wow you're such a fucking idiot you can't even hide yourself.
You're literally a fucking retard incapable of making a good lie. Is this new a form of lie? "pretending" to act retarded?

I'm a real centrist and I say fuck the turks/mexicans, fuck the asians/chink chonks, the niggers and let's aid Ireland.

The only thing commendable about the primitive asians and vikings is that they evolved into a decent genuinely socialist society (Japan, Norway, Sweden, Finland). While the Ottomans and "africans" did fuck-all to change in 3000 years.

Youre reponding to mutiple people, I know its hard for you to keep track of threads on Veeky Forums becuase youre used reddit.

>so many problems here on planet Earth?
None of them in western countries.
The west managed to fix their own problems so they should fix their own.

>The west managed to fix their own problems
>implying that the west doesnt have problems

Spending money on space tends to help solve some of those problems you worry about on Earth.

Example: Space spending gave us satellites used in weather prediction, which saves many lives when Hurricane season rolls around, or a blizzard strikes. The cost in property damage from hurricanes increases over time, because we are building more expensive stuff on the beaches. But look at the lives lost to recent hurricanes as opposed to past ones. You'll see a drop as airplanes became common, and radio was invented -- these factors allowed planes to track storms and ships at sea to report them. Then there is another drop as satellite forecasting comes online.

You'll see a spike again last year, as we had a freak year with multiple strikes on low-lying islands where advanced warning is only so useful. But the trend overall is towards fewer fatalities, thanks to earlier warnings, thanks to first radio and airplane technologies, an then to space technologies.

There are numerous examples of direct benfits like this, not counting the spinoff benefits.

>Never one peep about the defense/military budget.

You'd have to convince them that the military is not real and is just a huge conspiracy hoax.

>I'd like to see his calculations.

Here you go...

Report and hide them. Do not feed. If mods get reports, they are pretty good about cleaning out the shit.

lmao finally a thread in wich sci is not full of reddit faggots

The budget is a hoax though, there are 100's of millions of dollars wasted yearly by the military.