Should the United States Eliminate Funding to NASA for Space Exploration?

Should the United States eliminate funding to NASA for space exploration?

Yes, because if we find out facts about Mars, we may be able to live on it in a few hundred years. We should send one there right now. The government just chews up money on crap anyways. I am sure they spare a few billion dollars.

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what's the advantages of having space explorations and setellites?

Near space exploration can help us understand more clearly the dynamics and affects of gravity and the radiative spectrum from the sun. Here on the planet surface we take for granted the "constant" gravitational field and the protection from much of the radiation produced from our sun. There are countless types of radiation and electromagnetic emanations that can be examined in space but are not present naturally on earth. Through studying those as well as the effects of gravity we can hope to find new treatments for disease at the very least. Of all the MANY things we do not know about our solar system and univers how VERY many might be useful to us that we never get to experience within the protective sheath of our atmosphere and pull of our gravitational field.

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What are some NEGATIVE effects to privatizing space exploration?

There is not any! Well none to really speak of. Is there pros and cons, yes but those are just semantic. The real issue here is there is not a privet space industry as of yet. Aside from satellites, which in the 90s the market for small satellites collapsed. So most of the privet ventures counting on that mark disappeared, now all you have is virgin galactic, and their into tourist not trying to put NASA out of business. Here is the deal, privatizing space is not evil, it will SPEED development up, this is a FACT privet industry moves and develops things faster then any government entity does. The trick is making space turn a profit! So far no one has been able to do that, and most of the good ideas out there for doing such, people do not bother with because they fear the government will shut them down through heavy regulations. Anyhow this is rather simple, I strongly suggest you keep up your research and not go by what anyone says here!

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Is NASA hiding discoveries made via space exploration from the citizens of the United States and the world scientific community?

No. How many people are involved in Space Exploration?? Two People can not keep a Secret, how do you expect hundreds or even thousands of people to keep a secret?

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Astronomy and space exploration

January 24 - NASA Voyager 2 space probe makes first encounter with Uranus. January 28 - NASA Space Shuttle Challenger explodes on launch, killing all seven astronauts aboard. Their bodies are located by United States Navy divers on March 9. February 19 - The Soviet Union launches the Mir space station. March 8 - Japanese spacecraft Suisei flies by Halley's Comet, studying its UV hydrogen corona and solar wind. October 10 - Aten asteroid 3753 Cruithne, in co-orbital configuration with Earth, is identified by Duncan Waldron.

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Best PC space exploration game?

This one is going to be difficult to answer because there's a ton of really good games. Some of the ones mentioned here are good. Eve online is good, and has a working economy with trade, corporations, space pirates, mining, business, etc... graphics are alright, but has a monthly fee. It is very fun, mostly if you have a corporation (similar to a guild or faction) to play with. Playing solo is sometimes tiring. And upgrading your stuff can take a while. X3 is also mentioned and is very good. Probably one of the MOST graphically pleasing space games out there that i've seen. To top it off it actually DOES have a working economy. You can actually start your OWN stations for space trade (such as a solar pad that sells power cells, maybe another station that provides weapons... etc) and can pilot tons of different ships. It's interesting because every different solar system is different, there are many different races and organizations and you will end up having reputation that levies from side to side. You can not please everyone... so you have to balance to what suits you. However, X3 is VERY COMPLEX and will require hours on end to play so it is demanding in time. But is fun if you can put down the time to play it. DarkStar One operates a lot like the game "Freelancer" except with a story line. You take place in the universe and inherit a ship that has unique abilities, collect upgrades and quite literally "Morph" your ship to fit your style of play so it's very interesting to play. The economy is not really super customized, but the way it is set up is intuitive enough that doing trade to make money makes sense. Missions are quite difficult, and are fast paced... and it's fairly large to explore. It is fun. Good game. Freelancer (as mentioned above) is an exploration, trading, fighting game. The storyline is not super engrossed, however, you fly around, explore, upgrade your ship and weapons, do missions, etc. One very cool thing is that you can set up a multiplayer server and play together (or against) each other on missions, fighting, etc. You can dock on planets and stations, though not really 'walk around' but it's pretty well done and the graphics are pleasing and the gameplay is good. Another I played was Anarchy online. You travel all over the place, it's quite literally an RPG, but planet based, rather than universe based. plays sort of like other MMORPGS but it's free (at least without expansions) but the graphics are very dated. The star wars universe is good as well. I could go on about that for a while but it's star wars, so use your imagination. Probably some of the most fun games i've ever played for space exploration are oldschool games such as "Star Control II" and "Starflight" on both the 3DO and Sega genesis. You can actually find the open source version of Star Control II which is very cool. You take place as a captain of a ship. The human race has been enslaved by a race called "The Urquan" and you managed to slip out a few people on a "hush hush" mission, create a ship (which you pilot) and come back to the solar system to free all the enslaved alien races and earth to battle the urquan. The storyline is intense, the game is great, the battles are challenging, there are HOURS AND HOURS AND HOURS of gameplay, and the voice acting is superb and the music is even great for it's time! You even have to go onto planets to collect resources, explore the universe and trade with aliens to make money and upgrade technology and basically build your ship to kick butt, it's great. Totally oldschool 2d, but endless fun. The other one mentioned, starflight, is somewhat similar, but is actually concentrated on the cause of solar flares and exploring space. You will interact with aliens in that game too. There are no voice overs, it's very basic, basic sounds, (hey it's sega) but it's awesome and endless hours of fun. You explore planets there too and have to literally dig into the soil and mine, capture creatures on the planet, talk to aliens, battle aliens, etc. Good luck finding one. There's a lot to choose. And a few mentioned in here I have not seen... lots of good games out there.