Should we spend so much on space exploration? Maybe yes!

We all love to think, to scrutinize, to check if what we are doing as collectively and individually is right or wrong, and ask ourselves if we are doing the right thing.

And one of the things that is asked a lot these days of the modern world is about the huge budget we allocate to space agencies and space explorations.

The arguments of those who are against our "overly obsession" in space science do have strong arguments, for example, we do have real problems to tackle and those really needs lots of funding, be they the eradication of poverty from the world, eradication of diseases by spending more money on medical researches, spending more money to improve the quality of life of us and to make the earth a better place than to spend time and money on stuffs beyond earth!

Very true on a lots of levels. We should spend more money and time on stuffs on what we are doing on the planet and solve the problems on the planet itself. But I think, we should be able to handle both, the decoration of our planet and space exploration at the same time, and I don't think there should be any competition between them.

Space exploration and the amount we spend on it is actually right according to me. For say, today, most of the things that makes our lives easier, the things we our technologies are dependent on, are very much linked to our progress in space science.

Today, we use cell phones, texts, messages through internet and all these are only possible with the help of satellites which are revolving around the planet. Yes, without these satellites, we wouldn't have the ability to call, text, use the internet and so much like planes and GPS using satellites, these are all dependent on space technologies. Our lives will be oh so ancient had we not utilized our brains on space science.

And the limit hasn't even reached yet, space science is a dynamic field, progress are radically being made which might prove to be a boon for humanity, for example, our growing population needs more resources and with the ability to have access to the places beyond earth is very much important! We can have more good land on this planet if we are able to throw away our junks and waste-products out in the vacuum of space towards very far away from the planet! We can use lands beyond the planet like the moon and planet mars, to use as a launchpad for many stuffs like storing if not using them altogether for colonization.

Space science gives us a lots of privileges and is way more important than we can imagine, we just can't discard it by saying it is simply a waste of time and money since it is "all about finding aliens!" ?! It is one of the worst excuse to have and maybe we if can acknowledge the importance of this and balance it out against the negatives of space science, surely the positive will be much much more than the weight of negatives!

Cheers!