Why do We need to send people to Space?

Question

I'm not saying we shouldn't but what I want to know is our basic goal of going into space. All answers are welcome! :)

Answer 1

because it's the 'final frontier'

people are just curious, w/o curiosity man would have never explored new lands here on earth, or question religious beliefs, or explore medicine, it's what makes us human, we want to learn more about life

Answer 2

Why do We need to send people to Space?

earth's too small for all the morons who live on it

Answer 3

It's the next step in our species evolution. To become a space fairing civilization. Sounds kinda cheesy now that I say this. I am an explorer I want to know what is out there. I want to learn about the Universe that created us, and learn all of it's mysteries.

Answer 4

Simple. Because that is what humans do. As soon as we stop exploring and discovering civilization stagnates ( Remember the Romans). As always there are many who will question Saying stuff like , "why should we spend all the money to do that when we have all these other problems to solve? "  

Well can't any one learn from history. Our Population is already close to maximum. It has already been said ( by some expert I can't remember) The earth does not have enough resources for every person to live an American standard of life. We all Love this planet it is  the most amazing planet we know of. But, IF we want to save it we as humans either need to seriously reduce our population. (which will be bloody no matter how it happens) or start using our ingenuity to live where we think we can't.

That is just what we will do. Why, because we have always done it that way. As an animal we can only survive year round (without special protection: clothing, house etc) in tropical areas. Some how our ancestors said lets move north and south where we will have to ware special suits houses to protect us from the cold. They moved out and first made technology for survival then changed thiner environments to suit their needs. This is what we do and this is what we should and will do with space. By this means we can save our planet with out killing each other.

Answer 5

Well, it is the logical next step for our species and will be necessary for us in order to prevent many problems.

First off, we are rapidly exhausting the resources on our own planet, we will have to obtain more in-order to continue to live like we do now, and traveling to space is the only way.

Second, in order to prevent our own extinction, many events could result in our species being completely wiped out if we stay on one planet. It would be much more difficult for us all to die if we were not all on the same planet.

Third, to push the boundaries of science, we can do it, so why not?

Answer 6

same concept as why people made boats and sent people sailing in the water

Answer 7

Diversification...humans don't put all their $ into 1 stock (at least you shouldn't they say) so it is with our planet. Knowing that some catastrophic event wiped out the dinosaurs, we have to come up with contingency plans. Also, with all the super collider experiments they want to carry out on this planet, we might get sucked into a black hole, with no escape in sight.  With the discovery of 166+ moons in our solar system, we now have an escape route. Prior to these discoveries, we had no options since the 8 or 9 planets were inhospitable to life.

Terraforming has taken on new meaning since it was first coined. It's not just planting trees and laying down grass, it's about creating a dynamo first, so that a magnetic field is in place to protect its human, animal and plant life from dangerous radiation--cosmic, x-ray and gamma rays. And an atmosphere is not just the release of life sustaining gases thru chemical means alone, it's the organic process of using aerobic life to sustain a rich, thick atmosphere, replicating the eco and bio systems on Earth. Remember, all creatures (humans included) which respire aerobically, or breathe in oxygen, give off 2 primary by-products: water vapor and CO2. Add methane to this and you now have 3 potent greenhouse gases to build a rich and thick atmosphere.

Aerobic Respiration:

C6H12O6 + oxygen --> 6 CO2 + 6 H2O + energy

Farms, restaurants and bakeries will be very important on Mars because the 2 primary byproducts of combustion of all fuels is water vapor and CO2.  Methane also oxidizes to produce the same byproducts;

Combustion:

Butane C4H10 + 6.5 O2 --> 4 CO2 + 5 H2O

To create atmospheric oxygen and clouds, craters would be filled with water from Earth to which we'd add some iron sulfate and phytoplankton. Phytoplankton have a complex effect on cloud formation via the release of substances such as dimethyl sulfide (DMS) that are converted to sulfate aerosols in the atmosphere, providing Cloud Condensation Nuclei, or CCNs. Water vapor clings to CCN's and dust to form clouds. Through photosynthesis, phytoplankton are responsible for much of the OXYGEN present in the Earth's atmosphere - up to 80%.  

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Answer 8

To see what out there because we don't know.

Answer 9

To boldly go...(etc). It's fascinating, educational, dangerous and profitable! People love challenges. Just say something's impossible, and 20 people will line up to prove you wrong. It keeps life interesting and the thinkers thinking. Fun! Godspeed, John Glenn!

Answer 10

The main reason for space exploration at this point in human-kinds' evolution is that it is the first stepping stone to understanding the effects of long term space travel on the human body. It will be the very roots to human-kind colonizing space. The fact is, we will have to get off this planet one day. I think of it as kind-a like when humans developed the wheel and then the type-writer. Look what we did with those.