Bunnypuncher's daily giveaway 5/22/2018 - 15 SBD total in prizes
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Daily giveaway 5/22/2018.
First Place: @steemforez
Second Place: @licu
Third Place: @kurs
Fourth Place: @onefatindian
Fifth Place: @josephlacsamana
Sixth Place: @winningman
Seventh Place: @jesane
Eighth Place: @triablot
Thank you everyone that has been upvoting and participating in my other contests. This one had such good feed back I'm going to increase the prizes to 15 SBD for today's contest. There will now be:
First Place: 5 SBD
Second Place: 3 SBD
Third Place: 2 SBD
Fourth Place: 1 SBD
Fifth Place: 1 SBD
Sixth Place: 1 SBD
Seventh Place: 1 SBD
Eighth Place: 1 SBD
The daily give-a-way winner will be selected at random from people that comment on this post. And I'll announce the winner the following day on the next day's contest post. I'll pull the list of entries from the comments approximately 24 hours after the post depending on my schedule. So unless you see the following day's post go ahead and add a comment. I'll will include entries right up to the last minute before I post the result and next contest.
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Suggested Daily Topic
The daily topic for today is:
Should we spend billions on exploring space?
Good or Bad? Is the knowledge we gain worth the money we spend? What are your thoughts?
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The scientific returns have been enormous. I favor continuing robotic missions as they are most cost-effective. Manned missions require a lot of overhead for life support. A manned mission to an asteroid or Mars requires shielding from radiation which does not appear to be anywhere close to being ready for deployment.
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Exploration of space could lead to exciting technological advancements that could help create a better, perhaps more sustainable world for all of us. I say YES!
Exploring space might be the only chance for our species. We are quickly ruining our planet, we need a new one to ruin next!
Why bother spending all this money exploring space and finding out there was water on Mars at some point in the last few thousand years (we have water in Earth) when these same great minds could be applied to finding better ways to power humanity's insatiable desire for energy, to feeding the starving millions around the globe, and generally making life down here better before looking up into the heavens. It seems the authoritative powers have their heads way, way up in the clouds.
The needs of humanity should always come first. While there are people on Earth who need help, they should be helped, rather than seeing money spent on sending robots onto other planets. Humanity is the number one priority; keeping the human race alive is a necessity. Alternatively, space exploration is a desire. If we put our desires before our needs, then everyone loses out on a better standard of living.
Also, why take so much time and money to learn about Mars or any other planet, when we know so little about our own.
Ahhh. Some sanity. Thank you my dear friend. Very eloquently put.
Thanks.
I understand what you mean but well, when a meteor hits earth all live here would probably die. That's why it's good to start learning about other planets so we can live on them as well. We should rather spend no money on militaire and put that into making the live on earth better and exploring space / finding new planets to live on. I know that it probably won't work but yeah.
NASA has stated we(humans) can't leave low Earth orbit, due to the van Allen radiation belt. Which means, to me at least, if we can't do it now, we've NEVER been able to. Especially back in the 60s and70s. So that smells like a lot of lying already. I don't even know if we as a species have any real clue as to what's above us. I believe however it is off limits to us for whatever reason our Creator has deemed. I believe if we're going to waste money exploring unknown areas, we should start with our oceans. However I believe the only justifiable reason for spending that kind of money is if it is being done to actually help our wonderful people here on this lovely planet. We're destroying this place, leaving people to starve and freeze in the streets, and so many other atrocities, and so many people WORSHIP nasa and the other space agencies. NASA alone gets 19 BILLION!!! dollars a year. Imagine if they took just a one year break.
HOW MANY PEOPLE COULD WE FEED WITH 19 BILLION DOLLARS? HOW MANY FRESH WATER WELLS COULD BE DUG? HOW MANY LIFES COULD BE SAVED?!?!
I get to thinking about this and I get frustrated. We've made it this far in our civilization without attempting to go into space, and all the while, we've been screwing off everything here. Now, we finally have technology to either fix our preexisting issues that we our selves have created, or go "play" Startrek. And because of the indoctrination in the schools and the brainwashing of our adult population through media and politics, we choose Startrek.😔
If you want to actually learn how they solved the issue of traveling through the Van Allen belts you could read this: https://www.forbes.com/sites/jillianscudder/2017/06/16/astroquizzical-van-allen-belts-barrier-spaceflight/#79443bb36f8d
The difficulty of the belts is the radiation given to the astronauts traveling through, so they aimed well to minimize the damage. They only received minor radiation.
If you want to learn some useful innovations created through NASA research there are countless pages on the subject, such as this one: https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/infographics/infographic.view.php?id=11358
There is way more money spend on militaire other than space, I think we should fix that first. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_budget_of_the_United_States
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personally we should fix the problems on the planet, before heading to space.
That is a very good question. But lets talk about us ever been on the moon, I think not.
Agreed.
I would say it should be a percentage, not a hard number. Starving people should come first.
in my opinion, instead of spending a lot of money on less useful things, it's better to donate to an orphanage.
congrats to the winners
I do not think that exploring is bad, what I think is wrong is that they spend billions of dollars in space experiments and damage and pollute the waters of our planet, this is our home and I think we should take care of it more since it is the only planet suitable for human beings we will take care of it. There are many people going hungry and no one cares, what kind of humans are we?