A very good question that people ask is: How does space exploration benefit us? How does putting astronauts in danger just to bring them up to space help us? These are the questions I will be answering today.
Sure there a few set backs like the budget, the danger, and the limited amount of resources but put aside all the disadvantages and think of the benefits. I can think of many more benefits than disadvantages. The two most important and most interesting that I will be talking about are: how space exploration develops medical technology and the daily use of technology to predict and manage natural disasters.
Safety and protection from diseases in space is a major issue that scientists and medical staff at NASA pay attention to very aggressively. There are some really smart people that help NASA get all the information and top of the line technology to keep the astronauts safe. Alexander Tsiaras is one of these smarties who help the best of the best achieve their highest potential, he works as Associate Professor of Medicine and Chief of Scientific Visualization at Yale University in the Department of Medicine. Alexander Tsiaras helped NASA learn how to perform surgery in space on an astronaut in case of an accident. Astronauts can't fly home when an emergency occurs. He and NASA were testing this new technology on Earth when they started to realize they were seeing new things using the new kind of scanning technology called an MRI , new things never seen before that could help manage disease, but also things that gave a new insight to things above the body that "just made you marvel". To better describe this discovery look at this video. You do not have to look at the whole thing the very start shows the most important and relevant to space and then the video goes to a visual to give you an idea of what they are seeing.
Due to this major breakthrough in technology Alexander and his partner received a Nobel Prize in Science.
Also a major benefit that space provides to me, you and everyone in the world is the benefit of having a place to put our satellites. NASA has launched numerous satellites into space and what this does for us is give us internet, television and most importantly satellites help us predict when natural hazards are going to occur. Yes, ladies and Gentlemen, boys and girls you heard it right from...well me, if NASA didn't spend the billions of dollars they do on getting satellites up to space and astronauts up to space to fix them you wouldn't have internet which means...Disaster, NO FACEBOOK, TWITTER, OR MY SPACE!!! Also no T.V. and of course people of Earth couldn't be forewarned for a tsunami, earthquake, typhoon etc. Our world could actually become a "2012". NASA should keep sending out unmanned ships like satellites into space, for sure.Satellites benefit us better than sending people to the moon or mars etc.
What I find really ridiculous is that people are always complaining and stating with no proof that, "NASA and Russia are always wasting money on sending astronauts to space just so that they can discover new planets. Seriously...who cares about the other planets". First, if you ever hear this, mentally slap that person and tell them to keep their mouth shut and listen to what your about to say. You say,"No NASA and Russia aren't wasting money they are giving you tons of benefits, like internet,T.V and are keeping you safe and healthy through their research. Also Americans and others spend 154 billion dollars on alcohol, which is useless, and spend 10 billion dollars in Iraq both practically useless while NASA spends 7 billion on space exploration, which actually benefits all of earth in mostly positive ways. Also even more amazing is that NASA is only given .5 of the US budget out of 100. If I was a member of congress I would ignore everyone's remarks and keep to what my gut tells me. Space exploration is head over heels important.
In conclusion space exploration is definitely worth the cost with very few disadvantages, which include the budget, the danger, and the limited amount of resources. But, then there are the benefits, such as development in medical technology, management of natural disasters and the importance of satellites. Space exploration is the greatest breakthrough of all human time!
Sure there a few set backs like the budget, the danger, and the limited amount of resources but put aside all the disadvantages and think of the benefits. I can think of many more benefits than disadvantages. The two most important and most interesting that I will be talking about are: how space exploration develops medical technology and the daily use of technology to predict and manage natural disasters.
Safety and protection from diseases in space is a major issue that scientists and medical staff at NASA pay attention to very aggressively. There are some really smart people that help NASA get all the information and top of the line technology to keep the astronauts safe. Alexander Tsiaras is one of these smarties who help the best of the best achieve their highest potential, he works as Associate Professor of Medicine and Chief of Scientific Visualization at Yale University in the Department of Medicine. Alexander Tsiaras helped NASA learn how to perform surgery in space on an astronaut in case of an accident. Astronauts can't fly home when an emergency occurs. He and NASA were testing this new technology on Earth when they started to realize they were seeing new things using the new kind of scanning technology called an MRI , new things never seen before that could help manage disease, but also things that gave a new insight to things above the body that "just made you marvel". To better describe this discovery look at this video. You do not have to look at the whole thing the very start shows the most important and relevant to space and then the video goes to a visual to give you an idea of what they are seeing.
Due to this major breakthrough in technology Alexander and his partner received a Nobel Prize in Science.
Also a major benefit that space provides to me, you and everyone in the world is the benefit of having a place to put our satellites. NASA has launched numerous satellites into space and what this does for us is give us internet, television and most importantly satellites help us predict when natural hazards are going to occur. Yes, ladies and Gentlemen, boys and girls you heard it right from...well me, if NASA didn't spend the billions of dollars they do on getting satellites up to space and astronauts up to space to fix them you wouldn't have internet which means...Disaster, NO FACEBOOK, TWITTER, OR MY SPACE!!! Also no T.V. and of course people of Earth couldn't be forewarned for a tsunami, earthquake, typhoon etc. Our world could actually become a "2012". NASA should keep sending out unmanned ships like satellites into space, for sure.Satellites benefit us better than sending people to the moon or mars etc.
What I find really ridiculous is that people are always complaining and stating with no proof that, "NASA and Russia are always wasting money on sending astronauts to space just so that they can discover new planets. Seriously...who cares about the other planets". First, if you ever hear this, mentally slap that person and tell them to keep their mouth shut and listen to what your about to say. You say,"No NASA and Russia aren't wasting money they are giving you tons of benefits, like internet,T.V and are keeping you safe and healthy through their research. Also Americans and others spend 154 billion dollars on alcohol, which is useless, and spend 10 billion dollars in Iraq both practically useless while NASA spends 7 billion on space exploration, which actually benefits all of earth in mostly positive ways. Also even more amazing is that NASA is only given .5 of the US budget out of 100. If I was a member of congress I would ignore everyone's remarks and keep to what my gut tells me. Space exploration is head over heels important.
In conclusion space exploration is definitely worth the cost with very few disadvantages, which include the budget, the danger, and the limited amount of resources. But, then there are the benefits, such as development in medical technology, management of natural disasters and the importance of satellites. Space exploration is the greatest breakthrough of all human time!
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