Space exploration is pretty sucky right now.
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it was really only recently that we started exploring the galaxies, when u think about it.  we only went to the moon in 1969, and now we have made some significant changes, but i think that it will take some momentum for us to get further and further into space exploration and than we will have space exploration higher and higher until either a disaster happens or there are no humans.  i think that we r already making some significant progress, but i believe that the space programs will be making more significant progresses once we make cars that can use renewable energies.  than i think that ppl will start to look more and more towards the space and galaxy exploration.
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Because NASA is sourely underfunded.  It is allready to late for this planet.  I fear that mankind will not harness intersteller travel in time, none the less find a planet compatible with human life.  Also, NASA is a nonprofit organization.  For profit organizations tend to be quicker and more efficient, but as history has shown tend to also be less reliable and reckless.
265791
The planets in our system are way, way too small to do anything like this. It would take something with the density of a black hole (or perhaps just a neutron star) to do something like this.
21588
I bet if you got a coffe can and some pop sicle sticks, maybe some paper towel rolls, you could whip up a space station really quick.
369983
space is not a fluid that planets need to float in it is just plain emptiness.
112677
Structures in space are built the old-fashioned way with cranes, hand tools, portable electric tools, etc.  What you're talking about is so expensive and so far in the future it's only in people's dreams right now, like landing on the moon was a hundred years ago.
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NASA's 2006 budget is in excess of $16 billion. The agency says it understands its fiduciary responsibility to the taxpayer. But by any standard, the space program is wasting many, many millions of dollars. \n\nAnd now, it has its eye on returning to the Moon and a manned mission to Mars. Schatz says that shouldn't be the focus. "Let's just get NASA in shape to do what it's doing now as opposed to expanding its mission into something that's far larger than anything they've done before
459242
30 sec to mars rocks.  Arrrrrgh.  You're alright crotch face hooker.
572815
Most communication is pointless chatter so in some ways you might as well ask how we made do w/out noise.  When you think of the amount of money and time and effort currently being wasted on computers and mobile phones a better question might be how on earth do we manage to get anything done now and could we get to the moon again by just yakking and emailing?
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Actually for the larger industrialized nations space research and exploration is a relatively small fraction of their overall national budgets, and space research, if used wisely, can help reduce, if not cure, some problems by monitoring crops for diseases or drought, help track weather, animal and fish populations, enivironmental problems, and provide new technologies and materials that can improve healthcare and life in general, and of course there is the knowledge gained about the Universe in which we live. I do agree that there is a great deal of money wasted in the space program (I think the Space Shuttle and International Space Station are make-work money pits that should be closed off), but I think the more germain question is why so many trillions of dollars worldwide are spent on weapons, corporate greed, and subsidizing the lifestyles of the already wealthy. Cutting even just one major weapons purchase program in practically every country around the globe could give each child of those nations a free college education.\n\nI think an argument also has to be made for the simple human need to know and understand what space is and what's in it. Questions like "Where did the Moon come from and what is is made of?" would never have been answered if we hadn't gone there. Sending robotic missions to Mars, Jupiter, Saturn and other planets in our solar system give us some hint of what those worlds really are like and fire our imaginations, and sending telescopes, such as the Hubble, up into space have given us a clearer, and often very beautiful picture of what the Cosmos is made up of and how it got here. Theories aren't worth much unless there is data to back them up, and these sorts of instruments help us gather data in ways that human eyes or ground-based equipment never could, and while it's true most of us go through life occupied by the more mundane pursuits of life, but all of us at some time have wondered what this Universe is all about and what our place is in it, and I think the questions being asked here bear that out. Exploring space helps answer some of those questions.\n\nIt isn't legitimate space programs (ie., non-militarized) that are starving the poor; it's the insatiable, contemptible greed of death merchants like Lockheed-Martin and greedhead corporations like Halliburton and Bechtel who want to enslave us that do...\n\nN.
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its the most disastrous formula humans have ever concocted. gods are fake & politics are inherantly corrupt. we concentrate so much on these two silly notions that we failed to progress as a spiecies. theres an asteroid that will solve all our problems some day. had we focused on right than wrong, we could have stepped out of harms way.
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NASACAR CUP IS a waste of gas, in my opinion.
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NASA experiment a lot on this issue, maybe by login onto their site you'll find the info you're lookig for, luck..☺
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I understand your concern.  However, I think that the space program is a relatively small expenditure in terms of the U.S. budget.  It's about expanding possibilities for the future, but I think that it would be good to give more aid to those who really need it also.
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Isuues to be dealt with:\n#1 Leaving too soon will leave a power vacuum that will be filled with those who we will be fighting in the future.\n#2 The United States is easy to blame for every poor man's woes and those that would have power over others use it to their advantage.\n#3 There are significant cultural differences between MiddleEastern and Western nations that are/will be very very hard to resolve.\n#4 Isreal.\n\nThe answer?  Pour as much money as possible into space development, exploration, and colonization so we can escape this ever-shrinking planet and have the vacuum of space as a bufferzone like the oceans used to be.
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In my opinion, the lack of a shuttle fleet will be a good thing.  This will allow commercial space to really take off, pardon the pun, and be the main providers of space access.  I do not believe the Ares will be done in time, so we will have to rely on the Russians for space access.  This will be politically unacceptable, so congress will push to subsidize companies like space x, virgin galactic, and sea launch.
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Taking your points in order, and then answering the question:\nIf there were nothing in space, then there is no Moon, no planets, no Sun.  Absurd.\nWhile some planets, such as Jupiter, have poisonous gases, others do not.  Poisonous to us does not, of course, necessarily mean poisonous to other life forms.  Check out, for example, anaerobic bacteria, terrestrial life forms which find oxygen a deadly poisonous gas.\nIf we had all the resources we need on Earth, we would not be running low on oil, silver (no new sources found in over 80 years), and many others in short supply.  And even if we have not run out yet, necessarily we will eventually run out so long as we live on a finite planet.  Isaac Asimov calculated we would run out of most resouces by the year 2500.\nWhile the budget for NASA runs around $8-10 billion per year (depending on the year you look at), there is already an economy derived from space which exceeds that amount.  This includes spin off consumer products such as home computers and live television broadcasts from around the world as well as vastly improved weather forecasting.  Resource satellites have been used to find mineral desposits.  And private industry such as Bigelow is now moving into space, so that the government's seed money is functioning much like the seed money that was used to pay for the Lewis and Clark expedition 201 years ago.  That is, the government having proved it is possible, the citizenry moves in and exploits it, with the government raking off taxes.