Should humanity focus on deep sea exploration or space exploration...

[micrometers]

Depends on what you can find.

I think that humanity inevitably fouls whatever land it has access to. Who knows. Maybe deep sea has some process going on that keeps the earth in equilibrium.

So I'd prefer to leave it alone if possible.

Now space, I don't care if people wreck Mars, I really don't. I don't care if they change Venus completely.

 

[destrekor]

I was going to suggest Titan. All the methane and ethane you could ever want.


A long pipeline running to Jupiter would solve the problem though. Tropicana might be able to help out with that kind of project.

:awe:

That's because he's a Socialist, and Socialists are "bad".

Anyway, it's much more important for us as a nation to take all of our extra money and use it to solve hunger in Africa, or feed and house the homeless. The thought of striving for such pie in the sky nonsense is, well, nonsense; we're better off as a nation if we work hard at implementing faster high speed trading algorithms and credit default swap schemes. We don't need more scientists and engineers, we need lawyers, financial analysts, and marketing specialists.

That, and prayer in public schools, "teaching the controversy" where it comes to the Theory of Evolution, and more Jesus.

 

[destrekor]

Depends on what you can find.

I think that humanity inevitably fouls whatever land it has access to. Who knows. Maybe deep sea has some process going on that keeps the earth in equilibrium.

So I'd prefer to leave it alone if possible.

Now space, I don't care if people wreck Mars, I really don't. I don't care if they change Venus completely.

You underestimate our abilities - we are masters at our craft. We need no such thing as access to something to completely destroy it of all value.

This is our expertise, don't misrepresent it in such fashion.


:biggrin:

 

[amish]

I think he was arguing that any such project has to have such uses before it can even explode with fanfare when held by the government.

I.e. without any of those uses, if the government has control of it, it'll most likely wither and rot until they can either: a) find some way to utilize it in a Nationalistic-sense; or b) figure out how to best hand it over to the public/private entities.
Which is how everything awesome has, in a sense, come to be. And with that said, it should be good (in the long-run) that NASA is aiding/guiding the private entities to some degree, but in the end, they [private entities] have full control and it's all under the guise of profit-minded activities.

i see your point.

 

[Dr. Zaus]

Humanity should focus on whatever the hell the guy that made billions of dollars wants it to.

 

[wty]

Into Space,that's amusing,fascinating,and so much Sci-fi.

 

[Acanthus]

there is oil in the sea

is there oil in space? 😕

There are trillions of dollars in minerals in space.

 

[wty]

Maybe we can capture antimatters in deep space,it's invaluable 🙂