Name one good thing that has ever come out of space exploration.

>>8612457
future of humanity and hope. also scientific eagerness.

>>8612457
satellites

>>8612460
specifically weather satellites, communications
satellites, and navigational satellites

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>>8612457
An American flag on the moon. Worth every penny.

>>8612457
Nailing shut the big fucking mouths of flat earthers, daemonologists and theists once and for all.

Also, LOIC.

tang

checkmate atheists

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>>8612457

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA_spin-off_technologies

> OP eternally BTFO

seriously my man
> do it

Velcro.

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>>8612457

You really don't belong in /sci/ OP.

I don't know why you are torturing yourself by reading things that you don't relate to and often don't understand.

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>>8612572
>he thinks any piece of evidence could shut up fundamentalists

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>>8612599
Came to post this. Glad someone is on the job.

>>8612457
>Name one good thing that has ever come out of space exploration. Justify all the money sunk into that pit over the years. Protip: You can't.
And then there are those that ask, "If we were on the Moon 50 years ago, why aren't we still going there?"

stainless steel

>>8612457
GPS

Digital electronics were devoloped mainly due to the need for compactness. Before then, most computation was done on analog circuits

Proportionally to the total spending of human being over the last century, all space related ventures fade to complete obscurity. The US currently spends about 20 billion dollars on its space agency, NASA. It spends 3.7 trillion dollars annually. I fail to see how around one half of one percent of our budget going to space exploration is any kind of concern, especially given that space exploration has helped lead the way to commercial satellite ventures that have done immense good in so many ways.

"Money pit" my ass. There's enough waste and stupidity in the Pentagon and other sections of the state to meet that description,don't suck poor little NASA into it. They have issues to be sure, but they've on the whole been a boon to research.

>>8612457

Scaring the shit out of Commies

>>8612457
Proved that we cant go to space and the earth is flat

Mylar, a lot of medicines, new alloys, airbags, new textiles, satellite comunications (remember this one when you post here) gps... its too easy to spread shit about space race is a black pit from your computer...

>>8612457
Lots of technology has been developed for space that can also be used in other areas. It has managed to get people hyped about technology so the kids want to become engineers or scientists.

The money has no value in itself, it's what you can get for it that matters. If more people are in tech then more new tech can be made which increases the value of money (for those who have money) because new stuff you can buy with money pops up which maybe would not have popped up otherwise.

>>8613601
Yup this. Basically a big fat lie to enhance social control with new surveillance technology.

>>8612552
Most badass picture of all time?

>>8612457
>into that pit

As opposed to what other pit OP? The Coca Cola Company?

Let me remind you that the budget of NASA has almost never exceeded 0.5% of GDP the last 50 years.

I bet you even oil company subsidies are worth more than that.

Pens that write upside-down. End thread.

>>8612599
I sincerely hope he's baiting because we learned about this shit in 6th grade

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It kept people's eyes on the external world.

>>8612620
75% of sci just went, duh, he's talkin' to me.

>>8612457

WD-40

>>8612460

Came to say this

>>8614329
Kinell. I can't imagine the world before WD40.

>>8612457
Duct tape

>>8614367
Noooo... WD40 and now duct tape? How the hell did people live?

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>>8612457

>>8614380
I wouldn't call it living...

>>8612552
That picture is an reenactment, they didn't have such good cameras back then.

Google Earth

GPS navigation, but that's engineering rather than science.

>>8612457
Porn

>>8612457
>money sink
>USA GDP is about 18000 billion dollars
>USA space budget is about 20 billion dollars yearly
>USA uses 250 billion dollars a year for legal services; their law is so complicated and power so corrupted and inequal that you need professional people who've studied it for decades and business/politics connections to solve a problem regarding the ownership of your hot dog stand in your favor
>During financial crisis of USA Lehman brothers filed a bankruptcy of over 600 billion dollars (space budget for 30 years)
>USA military budget is about 600 billion dollars

>Benefits of space program include
>GPS
>anti-icing, anti-radiation, and anti-fire systems
>possibility of protecting Earth from meteors, cosmic rays, and solar disturbances
>computer programs for calculating trajectories and fluid flows that are used in military, science, and transportation

I'm not listing the possibility of colonizing other astronomical objects. That will never happen, and if it will, our feeble efforts during the 2th millenium will have absolutely no effect on it. Imagine using a day to walk 30 kilometers, then you invent a car. Your walk was meaningless.

Neither am I listing 'knowledge' as a benefit. Knowledge of our local solar system is too vague to put any economical value. What the fuck do we do with the information regarding formation of solar systems or galaxies. We are humans lol, those processes will never be in our control regardless of how much we know about them. Everything in space is too hostile and require too much energy and time for humans to ever set foot on.

>>8614740
Woah

>>8612457
powdered orange breakfast drink, Microwave ovens, Neil Armstrong, Hook and Loop fasteners

>>8612599
>seriously my man
>> do it
That is not how you use greentext.

>>8615235

> piss off

>>8612457
>>8612457
just came here to agree with OP

>>8615239
You came here from CNN, I see.

we avoided nuclear war in 80's because we knew about solar storm that accurred in 400mhz that US missile radar network uses.

>8612457
> Imagine using a day to walk 30 kilometers, then you invent a car. Your walk was meaningless.

What the fuck are you talking about? Are you implying anything done before a more advanced technology made it simpler was meaningless? This makes no sense.

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>>8612457

Low quality bait thread. Almost nobody fell for it. You can go fuck yourself now.

>>8614740
>just like flight

How's that polisci degree, snowflake?

>>8612552
Yeah right like you could see earth all the way from the moon, fake

>>8612457
>posts a fucking antigravity submarine in the op
>asks whats good about space travel

Well op, for starters.. FUCKING ANTIGRAVITY SUBMARINES

Advantages for all of manknid:

-Advancement of techs
-More jobs means less recession (lots of high quality jobs)
-Poetical inspiration

Advantages for the us particularly

-Creates job for the us particularly
-Places them ahead, makes them the first to enjoy all the tech advancements
-very VERY good PR
-Potential military applications, military lead is every day more related to tech lead
-Keeps a lot of very good scientists from going overseas
-National icon and pride


If you fail to see all the benefit it brings to your country then you deserve to see your coutnry fail under the racist trump

For the people who don't now what I am talking about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1_%2B_2_%2B_3_%2B_4_%2B_⋯

Imagine the number like it is a sphere more the number is big more the sphere that represant this number is big. Now imagine the sphere that represant negative number is just a verry small sphere.
So when we do an addition whis this verry small sphere and a normal one the result is a smaller sphere that the normal one because for exemple (10)+(-2)=8.
So now what happen when we are in the infinite?
The sphere keeps getting bigger and bigger so in comparasion the first number is like verry small sphere compared to the huge infinte number so what happen when we addition them? We get a smaller number. What do you thing? Have you a better way to understand this?

>>8612680
>Those are 2 measurements.

>>8614740
>Everything in space is too hostile and require too much energy and time for humans to ever set foot on.
Hello Lord Kelvin, I thought you died.

>>8618410
Why do you assume it has antigravity? Its just in orbit

>>8618593
MORE AWESOME THEN, SOMEOEN JUST PUT A FUCKING SUBMARINE IN ORBIT DO YOU IMAGINE THE AMOUNT OF ROCKET IT TAKES TO DO THAT

PURE COOL

>>8618410
More importantly that submarine is REALLY BIG