Aside from satellite communications, has space travel or astronomy done anything important for society?
Aside from satellite communications, has space travel or astronomy done anything important for society?
Luke Moore
Julian Brown
Yes. Because it required developing better medical, computer, and materials technologies to do it
Henry Sanders
i would argue that video game demand did that more lol
Angel Bailey
earth observation satellites are on the verge of ending conventional war. it may be hard to see from the hard physics side of things, but from the military domain, space has revolutionized warfare (ICBMs and beyond) in a way which is very likely to one day lead to global pacification (end of war, one way or the other).
keep in mind that space is the only infinite resource in the universe (more being made every moment). it is excellent for energy radiation and spreading out, and will ultimately be the source of human civilization's energy and industry (optimistic scenario).
it is also a possible behavioral sink on a civilizational scale--after all, what purpose is there in life if our species will forever remain bound to earth by gravity/dV? should we not rather prefer to use our tools to build better tools and see what might be possible instead of just sitting around waiting for the sun to explode?
Levi Nelson
Agriculture, navigation, mathematics to name a few
Tyler Torres
>t. Brainlet
>be in 1500
>Be italy
>Potential to become most prosperous nation
>What has boat travel across the ocean ever accomplished
>its a waste of money and time
>get fucked by spic and anglo sperg fucking around with boat and indeginous people on undeveloped land
Luis Gonzalez
We're expanding our reach user. So the question is have we to offer anything special to the universe? What say you?
Anthony Lopez
I'm convinced it's used for primarily by the government for money laundering.
James Wood
>Has space travel done anything important for society other than comms.
GPS
Rubbing owning the Moon in the faces of every human on the planet.
Rubbing the fact that the U.S is also going to own Mars soon in the planets faces.
Jacob Morgan
not yet but soon, we are one more human renaissance away