Whats the point...??

Question

of having different planets in our solar sysytem we cant even live on most of them,..only on mars..

Answer 1

i know.. why did our ancestors build them? waste of frickin money if you ask me

Answer 2

The point is that there is none. We don't live in an geocentric universe where the cosmos revolve around the earth for our personal use and purpose. It's all a natural phenomenon that occurs in space, just like our life occurs in existance; we're born, we live, then we die. The same is true about all objects in this universe. You also mention that the stars have no purpose. Well, our sun just so happens to be a star and it does serve a great purpose: provides our planet with the light and warmth that it needs to sustain life as we know it. None of us would be here if it wasn't for that star that supposedly has no purpose.

Answer 3

If we didn't have a Moon, we would have no tides and would not have learned about the "action-at-a-distance" provided by gravity as easily as we did.

Without the planets moving among the stars, we would have asked ourselves a lot less questions about the universe.

After turning the use of telescopes to the study of planets, we turned them to stars and learned about other suns, galaxies and a whole lot more.

Without the solar system to teach us about the rules of physics (and showing us that the same rules that determine what goes on on Earth are also the same rules in space), we would still be in our caves, being scared of the night.

Just that is worth something.  Was it worth the entire investment?  I like to think that it was, but it is not my decision.

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What is the point of a flower if you can't eat it. What is the point of a cat? It can't speak.

What is the point of a mosquito... (OK, I'll grant you that one).

Answer 4

see that's your problem right there... you're assuming the universe is of devine creation.....

as long as you try to apply something that DIDN'T happen to real life, nothing will ever make sense (that's why religion in general doesn't make sense)

Answer 5

From a scientific perspective, there is no point, nor does there need to be a point.  The matter is what scientists call an "imponderable."  It just is so.

Answer 6

wow

there is no "point", your question assumes some plan of which there is none.

Answer 7

just to say that there  are other planets in our solar system..

Answer 8

Planets, moons, asteroids, stars, and galaxies don't have to have a "point".

They form, they exist, then they die.  There doesn't have to be a human purpose to anything in the universe.

Answer 9

1.  We could probably live on a few of the moons of Jupiter and Saturn (indoors of course).

2.  They could be a source of materials.

3.  They provide information so we'll know what to look for when we go beyond the solar system.