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But why is that important? It sounds really cool, but why do we want that? As far as I know nothing useful, that has benefited humanity, has come from the ISS o

But why is that important? It sounds really cool, but why do we want that? As far as I know nothing useful, that has benefited humanity, has come from the ISS or going to the moon.

282883392 9y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA_spinoff_technologies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA_spinoff_technologies
- slaydemons 9y ago
  Has nothing to do with his question.
  - 282883392 9y ago
    "nothing useful that has benefited humanity" This is just a list of benefits that humans have gotten from space travel. Space travel in general is, in fact, beneficial to humanity and science.
    - slaydemons 9y ago
      That's like saying world wars are beneficial to humanity because a bunch of shit gets invented to fight wars. No. Wars and so far space travel has done nothing for humanity. If you would have instead focused on inventing the inventions that came with fighting wars instead of fighting wars we still would have the inventions but would have been much more efficient.
      - TeMPOraL 9y ago
        Not really. That's not how the world works. Otherwise we'd have jumped from stone age straight to nuclear energy. The way this works: space exploration presents a set of compelling engineering challenges that extend our capabilities. People solve those challenges, and then other people find more mundane uses for resulting solution. But without the initial compelling challenge, those inventions would likely either took much longer, or would not have been made at all, because ones on the market were good enough. And that's just talking about trickle-down benefits. Then there's the whole lot of direct benefits from satellites - from the most obvious, like navigation and communication, to the less obvious, like weather monitoring, agriculture management, emergency response, national security, climate science, etc.

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But why is that important? It sounds really cool, but why do we want that? As far as I know nothing useful, that has benefited humanity, has come from the ISS o

by quest88 9y ago

But why is that important? It sounds really cool, but why do we want that? As far as I know nothing useful, that has benefited humanity, has come from the ISS or going to the moon.

282883392 9y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA_spinoff_technologies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA_spinoff_technologies
- slaydemons 9y ago
  Has nothing to do with his question.
  - 282883392 9y ago
    "nothing useful that has benefited humanity" This is just a list of benefits that humans have gotten from space travel. Space travel in general is, in fact, beneficial to humanity and science.
    - slaydemons 9y ago
      That's like saying world wars are beneficial to humanity because a bunch of shit gets invented to fight wars. No. Wars and so far space travel has done nothing for humanity. If you would have instead focused on inventing the inventions that came with fighting wars instead of fighting wars we still would have the inventions but would have been much more efficient.
      - TeMPOraL 9y ago
        Not really. That's not how the world works. Otherwise we'd have jumped from stone age straight to nuclear energy. The way this works: space exploration presents a set of compelling engineering challenges that extend our capabilities. People solve those challenges, and then other people find more mundane uses for resulting solution. But without the initial compelling challenge, those inventions would likely either took much longer, or would not have been made at all, because ones on the market were good enough. And that's just talking about trickle-down benefits. Then there's the whole lot of direct benefits from satellites - from the most obvious, like navigation and communication, to the less obvious, like weather monitoring, agriculture management, emergency response, national security, climate science, etc.