Should any country in the world be spending money on Space Exploration?

yeah, but while there is no guarantee of finding alien life soon, we know that there are some ancient cultures submerged under our oceans.

Big deal. Underwater ancient cultures can't tell us much of anything, except that they're dead. Who knows what we could find in space? Probably not much of anything, at least for a long time. It still is worth the time and effort anyway.

Eh, I suppose. Either way neither will provide "fruits" for a while.

Why not spend Nasa's Budget on sea exploration, making a vessel that can with stand high pressure with a crew on board so we can reach the furthest most depths of the ocean... After all our planet is mostly water (God knows why we called it Earth, its a bit Bi-ust)

I heard that we know more about what's in space, then we know about the oceans...

HaloOfTheSun  - I would laugh if we reashed a far off planet we get there find it has loads of Alien life... and its all under water, and all the Aliens are Fish...LOL

I don't know why we would call them aliens if it was their own planet.

Because We're arrogant jack asses.

I don't know why we would call them aliens if it was their own planet.

Technically, the term is "Extra Terrestrial", but alot of people (not specifically on here) are to arrogant or whatever to use large words.

I know. We could call them aliens if they were coming to our own planet, but we'd be the aliens if we were going to theirs is kind of what I was trying to say.

"Well to us...YOU'RE the aliens!!"

"HAHAHA! Spoopty? YOU CRAZEHHHH!"

I love Invader Zim...

:/ I hate Invader Zim.

Unless he's from Starship Troopers. That Zim rocked.

"Well to us...YOU'RE the aliens!!"

"HAHAHA! Spoopty? YOU CRAZEHHHH!"

I love Invader Zim...

ROFL!!!

:/ I hate Invader Zim.

Unless he's from Starship Troopers. That Zim rocked.

you need to burn on a stake for heresy.


*ahem*

Djangonator has a point, and i wouldve made it but bashing humanity is much more fulfilling.

Humans are the same as every other animals, only better.

We are one of the few species that has sex for fun.

We are one of the few species that has sex for fun.

Buttsecks?

We are one of the few species that has sex for fun.

monkeys do.

Not in intelligent debate please. I admit I was also wrong, but that wasn't any better.

We are one of the few species that has sex for fun.

That's debatable, considering there are plenty accounts of homosexuality out in the animal kingdom.

This is true...but then you have to consider that it might be an instinct or something like..."I MUST hump, or bad things happen!" you know? But your point is 100% valid.

Well, you'd also have to consider the same for us humans...that once a male gets an erection, he's GOT to do something with it.

Myth.

YES it IS difficult, but not impossible, to ignore them.

Space is an interesting thing.
But wait.

As was stated before, one could learn about our own planet from learning about space and OTHER planets.
So why not the other way around?

Or, shouldn't we be putting money into something like medicine, 3rd world country aid, imrpoving our cities, and trying to decrease starvation?

Points have all ready been discussed.

Also, it won't work the other way around. The learning comes from comparing the two planets. For example, Mars. WE may very well be witnessing the dawn of life on Mars! This generation, or the next will never see anything come to fruition of course, but it is very possible that we will soon have Prokaryotes on Mars! Then, they will reproduce until something mutates, and we have Eukaryotic cells, then small multi-celled organisms, and in a few...million years, creatures! By studying the planet now, we may be able to fill in the blanks on our own history. We couldn't do this via our own planet (not completely) because it's all ready happened, but now we have an Opportunity via Mars.

ya, maybe in like 100 years we could establish our own life on Mars, but it would be really cold, and life on there would be hard, so it might happen after our life times. but it could still happen. i think we're already doing a good job of space exploration, and i dont think we need more money to support it, if we're already doing ok with what we got.

I still don't think any one should get their hopes up over thing that are that far off. We're more likely to kill outselves before seeing the fruits of our labor with the mars thing. Plus terraforming is pure science fiction right now. I support the idea of finding out whats beyond our planet, but I have to be honest. We're Idiots, we'll kill ourselves in a nuclear war before we can really put any of that knowledge into practical use. I'm not saying it useless to learn what we can from what limited space travel we can do, learning itself is reason enough. Although, because we are, or at leat most people are incredibly stupid, we're going to blast our asses into nothing before we can make the technological advances that some of you have been tossing around.

In short, we're all gonna die and we should accept it.