NASA is still a vital part of our government and country. We need to keep the funding to NASA up so we are able to make more discoveries like this and to investigate them further.
The brilliance of what lies deep in the outer rim of our universe (and many other universes for that matter) will not be discovered without the proper funding. Habitable planets, new sources of energy, or even other living creatures is just a short list of what is possible beyond our solar system.
In just 53 years since the establishment of NASA, we have made incredible discoveries in our own solar system, and even managed to safely send a man to the moon and back. Now imagine what we can do in the next 50 years if we focus on what is outside of our solar system. The possibilities are endless.
The brilliance of what lies deep in the outer rim of our universe (and many other universes for that matter) will not be discovered without the proper funding. Habitable planets, new sources of energy, or even other living creatures is just a short list of what is possible beyond our solar system.
In just 53 years since the establishment of NASA, we have made incredible discoveries in our own solar system, and even managed to safely send a man to the moon and back. Now imagine what we can do in the next 50 years if we focus on what is outside of our solar system. The possibilities are endless.
I think that discoveries like this are pretty exciting and amazing and the natural response would be to try to fund some more research to further understand what we've found. As cool as it would be (and possibly vital in the future) to better understand and colonize another planet, there are discrepancies over whether or not NASA should receive so much money for things like this.
ReplyDeleteAt this time, we as a nation have a lot issues economically and have been spending a lot of money on two wars that have been happening for about ten years. It is hard to think that we should put our money and efforts towards a distant future when we have so many problems right now that need addressing.
Yeah very true, I just hope that we don't forget about all the possibilities that lie outside of our solar system. But we definitely have to put our full effort to the issues at hand.
ReplyDeleteCertainly an interesting scientific discovery, Nate, but how does this relate to American themes? Consider how NASA was founded or funded, etc. Or historical antecedents to this kind of discovery.
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