Space exploration is a total waste of $$, so is TANG

**Dhelihiker** · 07-27-2015, 05:37 PM

Can anyone name a single benefit learned from spending billions of dollars on space exploration? Cool pictures, yes, curiosities peaked, yes. One life altering discovery, not even close.

Now they found a planet millions of light years away that is just like Earth. And??? Im a one Earth kind of guy, f those other planets.

Earthling til I die bitches

**Cruiser** · 07-27-2015, 05:43 PM

I like your tone Dheli. I'm gonna go ahead and throw my hat into the "earthling til I die" ring also. Everybody's all wound up about Mars, huh? Well, I say screw Mars. Screw it right in it big ole red face.

**Mustonen** · 07-27-2015, 05:44 PM

Is my sarcasm meter broken?

Space travel is key to the long-term survival of our species, especially if we keep trashing this place.

**4matic** · 07-27-2015, 05:49 PM

Polly Asshat?

**Cruiser** · 07-27-2015, 05:49 PM

That's a good call Mustonen. Worst case, we can use our space travel expertise to export our trash to someplace less relevant like GODDAMNED MARS.

**nickwm21** · 07-27-2015, 06:07 PM

The computer processor, LEDs, insulin pumps, modern water filters, memory foam, modern hearing aides, modern insulation, CAT scanners, smoke detectors, solar panels.... were all invented by/for NASA.

**stuckathuntermtn** · 07-27-2015, 06:10 PM

And also, some of those pictures are really cool.
You left out Velcro.
But fuck NASA. #OccupyEarth

**Harry** · 07-27-2015, 06:16 PM

Originally Posted by nickwm21

memory foam

Benny owes his comfy mattress to NASA ?

**Timberridge** · 07-27-2015, 06:26 PM

Wars are good too. Lots of cool stuff gets invented in wars. I'll take the other side of this. I fucking love Mars. Space exploration and wars FTW.

**skiballs** · 07-27-2015, 06:30 PM

Originally Posted by 4matic

Polly Asshat?

Black Hole

**digitaldeath** · 07-27-2015, 06:41 PM

A real fucking dummy post. Major ranking loss. 6 full points. So you're prob at a 1/10

**I've seen black diamonds!** · 07-27-2015, 06:51 PM

Originally Posted by Dhelihiker

Can anyone name a single benefit learned from spending billions of dollars on space exploration? Cool pictures, yes, curiosities peaked, yes. One life altering discovery, not even close.

Now they found a planet millions of light years away that is just like Earth. And??? Im a one Earth kind of guy, f those other planets.

Earthling til I die bitches

Fuck- seriously?

What else do you hate? Dogs, spicy food and beer? Do you hate the rubber in your sneakers? Because an early version of that was developed for space suits, you sad, sad neanderthal.

**XXX-er** · 07-27-2015, 06:59 PM

A rat done bit my sister Nell
With whitey on the moon
Her face and arms began to swell
And whitey is on the moon
I can't pay no doctor bills
But whitey is on the moon
Ten years from now I'll be payin' still
With whitey on the moon ya know?
The man just upped my rent last night
Cause whitey is on the moon
No hot water, no toilets, no lights
But whitey is on the moon
I wonder why he's uppin' me?
Cause whitey is on the moon
Well I was givin' him 50 dollars a week
And now whitey is on the moon

Taxes takin' my check
The junkies make me a nervous wreck
The price of food is goin' up and as if all that crap wasn't enough a rat done bit my sister Nell with whitey on the moon her face and arms began to swell with whitey on the moon with all that money I made last year put whitey on the moon how come I aint got no money here? Hmmm whitey on the moon ya know I just about had my fill of whitey on the moon
I think I'll send these bills air mail special to whitey on the moon

Help can't even help now and whitey is on the moon aid for my brothers and sisters how whitey is on the moon guess well just sit by dyin' with whitey on the moon dogs have better luck at there tails tryin' whitey is on the moon fed up us people are and whitey is on the moon the slogan poverty or bust later to whitey on the moon

**Gerome** · 07-27-2015, 07:07 PM

Originally Posted by digitaldeath

A real fucking dummy post. Major ranking loss. 6 full points. So you're prob at a 1/10

This totally reads like a digitaldeath post. You're just jealous you didn't think of it first.

For space travel, I totally disagree. Let's make up some numbers. Lets say if everyone in America (about 300 million people) puts in the cost of a movie, say $10, then you're looking at a budget of $3 billion, which is within the ballpark of NASA sending something to space. For the price of a movie, I get dramatic photos of Pluto. I get to know that some OCD nerds had the skills to calculate the speed and trajectory to land some bicycle sized rover on a frikin' comet. I get to contemplate life and how life formed.

**NoPostholio** · 07-27-2015, 07:07 PM

I can buy all the dumbness in this thread, I just can't wrap my head around the fact that dd didn't author it -

^^^^lol - jinx!

**old goat** · 07-27-2015, 07:08 PM

XXX'er--Did you write that poem. If not, please credit.

**XXX-er** · 07-27-2015, 07:15 PM

One of the founding fathers of rap ... Gil Scott Heron

https://ca.search.yahoo.com/search?f...7s+on+the+moon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGaRtqrlGy8

I like this one as well^^

**Dhelihiker** · 07-27-2015, 07:35 PM

Originally Posted by nickwm21

The computer processor, LEDs, insulin pumps, modern water filters, memory foam, modern hearing aides, modern insulation, CAT scanners, smoke detectors, solar panels.... were all invented by/for NASA.

You're confusing NASA with space exploration. yeah NASA wastes money on that dumb shit but NASA actually contributes huge to the American Aerospace industry.

We've found moon rocks and we think there is ice on Pluto.

**Dhelihiker** · 07-27-2015, 07:39 PM

Originally Posted by Gerome

This totally reads like a digitaldeath post. You're just jealous you didn't think of it first.

For space travel, I totally disagree. Let's make up some numbers. Lets say if everyone in America (about 300 million people) puts in the cost of a movie, say $10, then you're looking at a budget of $3 billion, which is within the ballpark of NASA sending something to space. For the price of a movie, I get dramatic photos of Pluto. I get to know that some OCD nerds had the skills to calculate the speed and trajectory to land some bicycle sized rover on a frikin' comet. I get to contemplate life and how life formed.

Id rather think the moon is made of cheese

**JayPowHound** · 07-27-2015, 07:43 PM

Originally Posted by old goat

XXX'er--Did you write that poem. If not, please credit.

I was more wondering if u typed it out from memory, or looked it up..

**Art Shirk** · 07-27-2015, 07:50 PM

Originally Posted by Mustonen

Is my sarcasm meter broken?

Space travel is key to the long-term survival of our species, especially if we keep trashing this place.

It took us ten years to get to Pluto in an unmanned thingamajig. I think we're pretty hosed.

And the technology we create for space travel makes its way into our terrestrial life in a pretty significant way. And I dig the pictures. And holy fuck what a cool concept - space.

**XXX-er** · 07-27-2015, 07:56 PM

Originally Posted by JayPowHound

I was more wondering if u typed it out from memory, or looked it up..

I don't really know anything but who does now days?

its all mutherfucking google cutnpaste, but I'm a computer illiterate ... still trying to figure out embeding

**iceman** · 07-27-2015, 07:59 PM

Originally Posted by XXX-er

One of the founding fathers of rap ... Gil Scott Heron

Say what now? He was a little more than that

**BmillsSkier** · 07-27-2015, 08:03 PM

As a kid I fucking loved Tang.

And astronaut ice cream!

Those two alone are cool enough products of the space program for me to justify it.

**Meadow Skipper** · 07-27-2015, 08:03 PM

Originally Posted by Dhelihiker

Can anyone name a single benefit learned from spending billions of dollars on space exploration? Cool pictures, yes, curiosities peaked, yes. One life altering discovery, not even close.

Now they found a planet millions of light years away that is just like Earth. And??? Im a one Earth kind of guy, f those other planets.

Earthling til I die bitches

Say that to Neil DeGrasse Tyson's face.