Who the heck did they survey that had this contradictory thought? 69% of dem and 70% of repub dissaprove of moon mission but 62% overall want more space travel?????? How do they think we plan to have more space travel without a moon base?
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Maybe they are bad ay data, cause that would be 31% Dem and 30% rep approve so add them together and round up a little and boom 62% approval
A ‘no take, only throw’ mentality.
The only reason it would make sense to return to the moon is to establish a base for exploration of Mars. I go really back and forth on space exploration. On one hand it is a giant money pit. On another, the research that has come out of space exploration has been beneficial to life here on earth.
The technologies we invent along the way are worth the investment, in my opinion. Look at everything that came out of the original space race.
Nah. If we go back to the Moon, we are going to need more than "new technologies", but an actual purpose.
Right now, Helium-3, rare earth metals, and a slingshot to the rest of the solar system are good reasons to colonize the Moon if we can figure out how to do it cheaply.
like ICBMs and freeze dried ice cream sandwiches!
Only the finest thermonuclear strawberries were used, now it's all artificial crap.
I feel the 'pale blue dot' was/is philosophically important for humanity. To realize all our wars and arguments, struggles and victories, take place on this small and fragile rock, floating in an endless void of nothingness. I think this experience was both humbling and inspiring for millions, and this package only comes with (wo)manned space missions.
Long term, I also dream of space habitats and space industry, to reduce the strain on Earth's ecosystems. Or the other way around; space habitats dedicated to preservation.
Very long term, there just is no way around it. Humans will keep exploring and push the boundary. Also it's wise to have an off-site backup.
the research that has come out of space exploration has been beneficial to life here on earth.
But space is 100% innocent.
It was just a huge pile of money spent on research and development.
Yeah and we only spend massive piles of cash on war and space exploration. Both have resulted in technology advantages but I prefer space exploration.
A majority of Americans have little to no education in the areas of science that NASA researches and develops for.
That's like saying the sourdough breadbakers think that the Atlanta Braves should hit fewer homeruns and focus more on defense.
A massive amount of Americans are idiots so I would not trust what they have to say. To get our selves to the outer planets we need to perfect the tools that will allow us to reach planets. The moon is a great place to perfect those tools.
Where do these oddballs (who approve of space programs, but not moon missions) think those asteroid mining missions are going to launch from?
Space tethers.
I'm glad that science isn’t a democracy.
However, I’m not so glad about NASA having to follow the current US Congress' whims all the time.
Many Americans are anti-intellectual science deniers.
I do not hold in high esteem opinions based on woo-woo.
We should have NASA's priorities determined by poll results from bar trivia machines.
Why can't we have both
Both would be best. Go to the moon and use it as a base/staging area for both asteroid hunting, and further reaching space travel.
Because politicians will use the argument to rile up their base, make sure neither gets accomplished, and pocket as much of the money as they can.
Yes but most Americans think asteroid hunting requires a rifle.
I remember a TED talk that sold me on big science: For every dollar we spent on the moon shots, we made fourteen.
The thing is, going to the moon involved doing a lot of development, and this time we're going to the moon better and are going to do more things.
At some point we'll want to put a colony up there, and will need still more development to make it work.
A lot of the technology that we use today was developed thanks to the space race. In fact, when the USSR was taking its victory laps for Sputnik, Eisenhower freaked out, signed the National Aeronautics and Space Act and then extended a grant to Fairchild Semiconductor which started the digital revolution in Silicon Valley, eventually propelling us into the cyberpunk dystopia of smart refrigerators and zombie bot-nets that we know today.
Since when did we need to flip a coin on issues like this? Spoiler: We don't! There are plenty of resources to go around.
If anything was a waste of time, it was this poll. Go home, Pew Research, you're drunk.
Business Insider is a shady source.
How come?
How come?
Note the use of "many Americans" in the headline. If it was most they'd have said most. Clickbait headlines are the worst.
true though, if they can mine one of these asteroids and put the wealth on the block-chain AsteroidCoin would literally go to the moon!
I wonder how much of this is politics. NASA is too popular to threaten to shut it down, but you can publicly condemn $otherParty is wasting money on program X
Lagrange point station would be neat.
Just give them more money and do both
this may be an asinine fear based on my rudimentary knowledge, but I hope they never drill the moon, because human greed can't be contained and some dumb ass will just see $$$ signs like some looney toons cartoon shit in their eyes and want to mine the whole thing up. Then there goes a ton of shit that we depend on the moons gravity for.
The moon is a fourth the size of Earth. Even if we had the infrastructure and technology (spoiler, we don’t), we can’t even make a tiny tiny tiny tiny dent in the moon, at least in the next hundred years or so. Heck, nuking the moon with every nuke humanity has won’t even make a noticeable dent in the moon!
I guess it's expected since showing the innovations and returns that could come from a project like this is hard.