Yes - such research leads to unexpected benefits.
The biggest benefit will be from the work spacex is doing - but that's not to suggest that the information we get from the suborbital companies won't be valuable in its own right.
Yes - such research leads to unexpected benefits.
I couldn’t have put it more delicately myself!simonineaston wrote: ↑14 Jul 2021, 5:25pm My knee-jerk reaction to all this is:
how typical of us, an ignorant and unsophisticated animal, to take the view that it's fine to [slang word for defecate] roundly and with gusto, in one's own nest and then look around, scratching and farting, for another one to foul...
There was an interesting article in The Guardian yesterday about contaminating other planets.simonineaston wrote: ↑14 Jul 2021, 5:25pm My knee-jerk reaction to all this is:
how typical of us, an ignorant and unsophisticated animal, to take the view that it's fine to [slang word for defecate] roundly and with gusto, in one's own nest and then look around, scratching and farting, for another one to foul...
Some of Earth’s extremophiles are now Martians; that much is evident. “We know there’s life on Mars already because we sent it there,” Nasa’s former chief scientist John Grunsfeld admitted in 2015. Whether these microbes can emerge from dormancy and grow – whether they, as Venkat put it, are capable of “making the red planet green” – is much less well understood.
https://www.theguardian.com/science/202 ... -mars-nasa“I think we screwed up this planet well enough that we don’t deserve another one – but that’s just my personal bias and I’m very careful not to bring it into my job.”
What’s remarkable is not that a water company knowingly and deliberately poured billions of litres of raw sewage into the sea to cut its costs. What’s remarkable is that the Environment Agency investigated and prosecuted it. Every day, water companies pour tonnes of unprocessed filth into England’s rivers and seas, and the government does nothing.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... ent-agencyEven in the wake of the sentence last week, under which Southern Water was fined £90m, the company’s own maps show a continued flow of raw filth into coastal waters. Same <i>[inappropriate word removed]</i>, different day. The only occasions on which water companies are allowed by law to release raw sewage are when “exceptional rainfall” overwhelms their treatment works. But the crap keeps coming, rain or no rain.
About as polluting (per passenger) as a single transatlantic flight, so not nearly as bad as you think - even less for the bald tax evader's efforts, since the output is water.
Really, you can't think of any experiments which require several minutes of microgravity, but don't need months of it?I can't see it being anything else other than saying to the world 'I've been into space.'
There are benefits to robotic exploration, but there are plenty of things that are far better done with people. We should never have left the trees, or if you listen to some people, the sea.I see some benefits from exploring space but it doesn't need to include manned flight.
Yeah, needs an extra S.NATURAL ANKLING wrote: ↑24 Jul 2021, 10:41am Hi,
I see today they are redefining the word astronaut.
Except the tax situation means it's actually us who are paying a lot towards it allAudax67 wrote: ↑24 Jul 2021, 11:04amYeah, needs an extra S.NATURAL ANKLING wrote: ↑24 Jul 2021, 10:41am Hi,
I see today they are redefining the word astronaut.
My take on these folk? Sure, let them play. We'll maybe get some new ideas and new tech out of it.
Ianhttps://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/amazon-workers-slam-jeff-bezos-b1887944.html wrote:Jeff Bezos criticised by Amazon workers and customers after thanking them for funding space launch
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After returning to earth on Tuesday following the successful launch of his Blue Origin spacecraft, Mr Bezos thanked “every Amazon employee and every Amazon customer, because you guys paid for all this”.
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