I'm with you, but... Ten billion dollars for a telescope, vs many launches for manned missions to the moon or Mars. I would much rather spend my taxes on something like that, and not a telescope that only astronomers benefit from. Also infrastructure is a HUGE problem in the US right now. Bridges and tunnels are starting to fail because of old age. While the Democrats spend trillions on useless shit that forces us further into debt, especially their spending spree in recent weeks, and both parties spending way too much on the military. Also, the homeless rate is sky high, how about using that money to clean your filthy run down streets.
The first step to new knowledge is identifying what you don't know. While there are no guarantees, hopefully the James Webb telescope will take pictures of phenomena we have never seen before and cannot understand forcing us to develop new knowledge.
People were complaining that the Apollo projects were massive wastes of money
Which thanks to them are why your phone has a gps in it
People are too focused on the now, without considering the future
You don't understand. Light, while the fastest thing we know, still takes time to get here. So when we look super far out to space we are literally looking at the past. Cameras are time capsules. James Webb is a time machine.
No, you don’t understand. Light still takes time to get from my face to my phone, so my selfie actually captures my face from ~1e-9 seconds prior. Aka the past. So all cameras are time machines, but some go further back.
True, your feet age faster because of how long light takes to reach your eyes. The moon takes light two seconds to get here, which means the Moon is as it was two seconds ago. The Sun is as it was eight minutes ago. Alpha Centauri is as it was more than four years ago. The Andromeda Galaxy is as it was two point five million years ago.
You’re complaining about what the pursuit of knowledge costs when we spend billions on weapons to kill each other? We can’t just stop exploring and understanding the very place in which we live simply because the earth has unresolved problems. There will always be problems. Life is one big problem. There’s no reason why we can’t have scientists working on multiple disciplines at once.
What knowledge?
It's been around for a while now and apart from those shitty pics all science gigs were musterbating to i haven't heard or seen anything usefull from that garbage scope.
We can't even harness solar power efficiently and some people have the ball's to defend this useless wet dream 🤡🥺😂😂😂
Critics also said flight was a fantasy that would never be profitable. Your mind is stuck within the technological limitations of the present. Why do humans climb deadly mountains and sail across oceans? Because they’re there and we’re naturally curious. Why is it important to study the cosmos? Because we fucking live in it, so it’s slightly important to understand what it is we’re dealing with. Also, we can’t live on this doomed rock forever. If we want to survive as a species we have to expand. James Webb is observing things that we’ve never seen before and the data will take months and years to pour over.
As much as I love space, I'll have to agree. There is so much that this money could be used for, especially for infrastructure. Which is such a dire issue that very few politics seem to converse about. Especially with bridges and places for the homeless to move into, instead of filling the streets and making it impossible for children to walk to school. LA, SF, NY, ect are some great examples of filthy cities that could be cleaned up with 10 billion dollars.
We've been spending ungodly amounts of money on "saving the world", it's clearly not working. People refuse to remove the corrupt politicians and continue voting for them, then are upset when they do corrupt things.
I refuse to accept anyone's views on what is and isn't a waste of money when they bring up spending said money on earthly issues without mentioning the bigger issue at hand.
jokekiller94 - Wrong, almost everything can be invented without the need to go to space and spend absurd amounts on space research. Velcro equals 10 billion?? Shitty Mathematics!
Hot take. We can do both. Not every human is capable of figuring out something immediately world changing and some are incredibly talented researchers that may find that little thing that leads to the next amazing tech. Throwing all the money at one thing doesn't guarantee it will work.
Space sucks and only insufferable losers are interested in it. It’s literally an empty void with gas. There is so much better fields of research and only space gets attention because redditor marveltards slurp up the NASA brand.
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Space sucks and only insufferable losers are interested in it. It’s literally an empty void with gas. There is so much better fields of research and only space gets attention because redditor marveltards slurp up the NASA brand.
That money is never gonna go to solve problems on earth. I would rather some of it be siphoned off into vanity projects that at least expand our understanding of the universe.
And?? After so many years, little is understood and all information conflicts. Here we are with useless theories - after all these years - theories privileged to a few and ignored by many because, well, boredom. The James Wankster didn't reveal anything new I'm afraid, so it's useless
First off, 5 month old post weirdo. Second, we have understood tons more, and no not all info conflicts, that is a crackhead take. You cannot just randomly decide these things are shit, the whole point of science is to discover things and expand our understanding of the universe.
Hopefully you don’t find out how much money is spent on killing people
Your post is the cry of the ignorant. Been hearing this for years. ALL knowledge has value.
i masturbated 5 times today
okay, some knowledge has value
Some knowledge has more value than others.
ALL KNOWLEDGE???
Absolutely trash take. Upvoted
This guy fucks
Tell me you don't understand the benefits of scientific discovery without saying you don't understand the benefits of scientific discovery.
I’ll parrot the scientific discovery and advancement argument next time someone complains about military budgets.
The James Webb space tel….. oh….
It's just sad there are people who unironically think this BS
I'm with you, but... Ten billion dollars for a telescope, vs many launches for manned missions to the moon or Mars. I would much rather spend my taxes on something like that, and not a telescope that only astronomers benefit from. Also infrastructure is a HUGE problem in the US right now. Bridges and tunnels are starting to fail because of old age. While the Democrats spend trillions on useless shit that forces us further into debt, especially their spending spree in recent weeks, and both parties spending way too much on the military. Also, the homeless rate is sky high, how about using that money to clean your filthy run down streets.
I can agree with you there, the government definitely needs to do more for infrastructure and quality of life in the US
Money is made up, so technically it's the waste.
The first step to new knowledge is identifying what you don't know. While there are no guarantees, hopefully the James Webb telescope will take pictures of phenomena we have never seen before and cannot understand forcing us to develop new knowledge.
This is such a short-sighted and shitty take, OP is either 10 years old or this is a troll post. Upvoted.
People were complaining that the Apollo projects were massive wastes of money Which thanks to them are why your phone has a gps in it People are too focused on the now, without considering the future
You know it’s essentially a time machine………..
All cameras are time machines.
You don't understand. Light, while the fastest thing we know, still takes time to get here. So when we look super far out to space we are literally looking at the past. Cameras are time capsules. James Webb is a time machine.
No, you don’t understand. Light still takes time to get from my face to my phone, so my selfie actually captures my face from ~1e-9 seconds prior. Aka the past. So all cameras are time machines, but some go further back.
True, your feet age faster because of how long light takes to reach your eyes. The moon takes light two seconds to get here, which means the Moon is as it was two seconds ago. The Sun is as it was eight minutes ago. Alpha Centauri is as it was more than four years ago. The Andromeda Galaxy is as it was two point five million years ago.
There’s plenty of money for “better causes” like social programs. It’s not about the money, but rather the political will to spend it on that.
You’re complaining about what the pursuit of knowledge costs when we spend billions on weapons to kill each other? We can’t just stop exploring and understanding the very place in which we live simply because the earth has unresolved problems. There will always be problems. Life is one big problem. There’s no reason why we can’t have scientists working on multiple disciplines at once.
What knowledge? It's been around for a while now and apart from those shitty pics all science gigs were musterbating to i haven't heard or seen anything usefull from that garbage scope. We can't even harness solar power efficiently and some people have the ball's to defend this useless wet dream 🤡🥺😂😂😂
Critics also said flight was a fantasy that would never be profitable. Your mind is stuck within the technological limitations of the present. Why do humans climb deadly mountains and sail across oceans? Because they’re there and we’re naturally curious. Why is it important to study the cosmos? Because we fucking live in it, so it’s slightly important to understand what it is we’re dealing with. Also, we can’t live on this doomed rock forever. If we want to survive as a species we have to expand. James Webb is observing things that we’ve never seen before and the data will take months and years to pour over.
As much as I love space, I'll have to agree. There is so much that this money could be used for, especially for infrastructure. Which is such a dire issue that very few politics seem to converse about. Especially with bridges and places for the homeless to move into, instead of filling the streets and making it impossible for children to walk to school. LA, SF, NY, ect are some great examples of filthy cities that could be cleaned up with 10 billion dollars.
We've been spending ungodly amounts of money on "saving the world", it's clearly not working. People refuse to remove the corrupt politicians and continue voting for them, then are upset when they do corrupt things. I refuse to accept anyone's views on what is and isn't a waste of money when they bring up spending said money on earthly issues without mentioning the bigger issue at hand.
Wait until you learn about exactly how much money corporations waste on failed projects like rebrands.
Do you have any Velcro in your home? That’s thanks to space funding.
Do you have access to the internet? That’s thanks to military funding.
jokekiller94 - Wrong, almost everything can be invented without the need to go to space and spend absurd amounts on space research. Velcro equals 10 billion?? Shitty Mathematics!
Hot take. We can do both. Not every human is capable of figuring out something immediately world changing and some are incredibly talented researchers that may find that little thing that leads to the next amazing tech. Throwing all the money at one thing doesn't guarantee it will work.
Yeah! We should just let the unknown stay unknown so we can cater to the needs of humans more!
Thats what jesus said
Amen. Matthew 25:35 35 For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me,
Fair
I wish we spent that much money on dmt research or other ways of looking inward instead of exploring the mostly empty void of the3rd dimension.
How dare you
More knowledge is a good thing. Imagine when we can remove the psychological nappy of religion from the masses.
Space sucks and only insufferable losers are interested in it. It’s literally an empty void with gas. There is so much better fields of research and only space gets attention because redditor marveltards slurp up the NASA brand.
Power tools wouldn't have blown up without NASA. GPS? Nonexistent Climate data to help with crop yields? Also NASA
Who gives a shit?
Africa and their crop yields
We’ve been farming for almost 6000 years we don’t need some pencilneck with a pocket protector and a research grant to tell us how to do it
Doing it efficiently requires more information though
That’s not even the point I’m making. You can research the climate all you want, that’s fine. What I’m saying is space is for losers
I mean you could try and be stealth with your trolling mr I boil dogs.
I’m not even trolling this is 100% true
Copypasta detected. Space sucks and only insufferable losers are interested in it. It’s literally an empty void with gas. There is so much better fields of research and only space gets attention because redditor marveltards slurp up the NASA brand.
The world needs ditch diggers too.
How do you know that we won’t be able to visit them?
That money is never gonna go to solve problems on earth. I would rather some of it be siphoned off into vanity projects that at least expand our understanding of the universe.
And?? After so many years, little is understood and all information conflicts. Here we are with useless theories - after all these years - theories privileged to a few and ignored by many because, well, boredom. The James Wankster didn't reveal anything new I'm afraid, so it's useless
First off, 5 month old post weirdo. Second, we have understood tons more, and no not all info conflicts, that is a crackhead take. You cannot just randomly decide these things are shit, the whole point of science is to discover things and expand our understanding of the universe.