AS was recently saying its ridiculous how much money NASA gets to send people to the moon/Mars/explore the universe. Here is my rebuttal, Via Geekologie:
Astronomers on Wednesday [July 8] said they had found the farthest supernova ever detected, a giant star that ripped apart around 11 billion years ago.
The ancient supernova was found after astronomers compared several years of images taken from a portion of the sky, enabling them to look for objects that changed in brightness over time.
The universe is believed to be 13.7 billion years old, so the supernova marks the death of one of earliest stars in creation.
The previous supernova record was an event that happened around six billion years ago.
Posts
Sorry, I don't think this answers the question. You can explore space and conduct scientific experiments there WITHOUT PEOPLE. That's the most costly part. Keep the people down here and spend the money on warp drives....
ReplyDeleteI think that's a fairly awesome example. Besides what good will it do if we always remain grounded?
ReplyDelete