| </span><blockquote><span class="smallfont">Quote:</span><hr size="1" />Originally Posted by (Sean,)
Recycling doesn't have to "work to a point". We have decided to do live like this because we don't have any major issues yet. The space on Earth isn't finite either, so I think we should invest more time on managing our own space before we bring more resources in as you propose, but this is just my uneducated opinion on this matter, I'm no expert on this.
But hey, if it's profitable then I'm all for space travel.<hr size="1" /></blockquote><span class='postcolor'>
I beg to differ. Sending Harrison "Jack" Schmitt to the moon returned more valuable data to the Earth than all of the other Apollo and robotic missions to the Moon combined. A machine is incapable of doing the field research necessary to learn what is needed from the Moon, and Mars and so forth.
It was not a probe but a human hand that returned anorthosite to the Earth.
I suggest that you research Apollo 17 and its triumphs. As Gene Cernan said, "It is a damn shame we stopped going to the Moon because we were just getting good at it." Or maybe that was Harrison Schmitt, one of them. Either way, the fact is that manned space exploration is the only method of exploring space when it comes down to it. Probes and telescopes are good to begin with, but in the end, they are no match for a pair of trained eyes right there at the site. |