My friend is a chemist and says astronomy is almost useless.

>>8167173
it has had no impact at all.

>>8167219
Top kek.

>>8167173
Observing stars --> Nuclear Fusion

>>8167173

astronomers like Kepler and Newton (also an astrologer) made giant contributions to geometry and calculus

>besides helping to develop other technologies that can be used elsewhere?

oh

>>8167229
What practical applications does calculus and geometry have, besides helping to develop other technologies?

>>8167173
Practical applications are for people without soul that don't care about the nature of our universe.

>>8167173
Killer asteroids. Only through astronomy could you stop those. Studying other planets sheds light on our own. In particular Venus and climate change come to mind.

Observing the stars confirmed some important predictions made through relativity, so there is that.

>>8167246
>implying theory of relativity is useful
lol

>>8167249
GPS
>>8167244
Nice bait.

>>8167268
gps don't use it. It's a myth.

>>8167275
Of course it is, retard.

>>8167245
good example

>>8167275
Jerk off a fat jewish nigger, bitch. Of course it is.

>>8167238
>What practical applications does calculus have?

Please kys

>>8167327
This just hows how stupid physicists are they take the bait, while an engineer would know not to take it.

>>8167327
>>8167279
http://www.alternativephysics.org/book/GPSmythology.htm

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>>8167334
>Engineers

>>8167374
not taking the bait :)

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>>8167378
You already nibbled.

>>8167374
>You mean a physicist taking a mechanical drawing class.
>FTFY
Yes, this is the exact result you get. You should leave reality to people who actually know what to do with it.

>>8167275
lol moron

>>8167374
Omfg, this guy literally validated his point.

>>8167238
Maybe fucking aerodynamics.

>>8167371
at least thats some high effort trolling

Why has no one mentioned helium yet? OP, the element helium was discovered by looking at the spectrum of the sun. We found helium on the sun before we found it on earth.

>>8167173
flying to other planets

>>8167173
With astronomy you can study bodies like comets and asteroids and in the future we will be able to gather resources from them.

Studying the greenhouse effect on Venus and the lack of Ozone on Mars' atmosphere we now know how devastating those effects can be without trying ourselves on Earth. Hopefully we can convince retards that our survival as species depend on the fragile balance of our atmosphere constituents.

>>8167173
While there are many practical applications and useful technologies, that came through astronomy, I also think research is justified if it "just" satisfies our curiosity

Gravitational wave astronomy is the future

>>8167173
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cz-JwI0d8f8

>>8167224
>I was looking at clouds the other day, now I'm a meteorologist

>>8167173
>astronomy
>practical application

Nobody studies astronomy because of practicality. It teaches us things about our Universe and reveals things that do not fit the current models of particle physics (which does have immediate practical application). Astronomy is as close to experimental astrophysics we'll ever get.

Also inb4
>particle physics
>practical application

http://www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/march-2013/how-particle-physics-improves-your-life

>>8168843
Also I should mention that astronomy brought us the field of adaptive optics, which while not an application of astronomy, is used and developed by astronomers and does have application in many other fields.

>>8168533
nice Osmos OST rip off

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>>8169248
>Osmos OST rip off
kys pleb