psyah
October 2, 2014, 9:29am
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Re: India’s mars mission countdown…
First, it doesn’t have to be a manned mission. Maybe one day we will be able to do so but I still find the image feed of those space probes way more inspirational than listening to some scholar who has nothing new to say. Second, if space exploration is not about benefit to mankind then neither is anything else. The only people benefiting humanity are those who are providing food and shelter to others. That is what we need to survive, everything else is a luxury. One doesn’t even need religion to survive. Even THAT is a luxury! Last but not least, it is all perspective, buddy. I can choose to look at the positives or negative of anything. Let’s look at the funding space exploration gets vs what religious and political organizations get. Let’s compare what inventions have been brought forward from the space exploration research work. Let’s compare the charity work done by religious and political organizations and size it up against the funding they do get!
Peace Theorist
I have no problem in comparing two different things … But we need to agree on mutual terms of reference … I was trying to keep this conversation limited to economics … But if you want to diversify that is fine … But let’s agree on how we can measure the benefits of things like religion first.