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ds2isthebestone t1_ixf45tz wrote

Reply to comment by Munchies4Crunchies in Europe to commit billions to 'space race' by nastratin

Damn i'm tired of hearing this. ESA is like 12 bilion USD a year, all the participants GDP combined is above 10 trillion USD...

Edit : Nothing against you pal, but it always reminds me of the film Interstellar where people just straight blame the problem of the world on the fact that they spent billions on the space programs.

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Munchies4Crunchies t1_ixfj3dy wrote

It seems stupid, but you dont really think of space as a place to find anything useful you could bring back to earth so much as just a deep black hole that’ll kill you in an infinite number of ways but it’ll probably look indescribably amazing while you burn up or condense into an atom or you’re vaporized

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ds2isthebestone t1_ixfkrp3 wrote

I think its rather the technologies that is developped and discoveries that are very helpful. Without space exploration :

- Solar pannels wouldn't be as powerful today.

- They gave a huge boost to the chip manifacturing

- Insulin pumps

- Improved water filters

- Small cameras that fits your phone

- No CAT Scans

- No LEDs

The list goes on. You can find more about that on the NASA website I believe.

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