Put your name Today Bill Gates is the world's richest man worth a Not very professional, still gets the point across thoughwhopping 78.7 Billion dollars, but a much greater wealth lies in the asteroid belt, an estimated 100 Billion dollars for everyone on Earth. Unfortunately there is little in the way of companies looking to tap into this wealth and with government agencies like NASA’s budgets being cut you could give an example there is little in the way of governmental assistance. Fortunately there are some companies that are going to expand into this industry such as Deep Space Industries and the government of Luxembourg pledged 21 million dollars to asteroid mining. But without much more government assistance this could fall to the private sector, a potential disaster with 1 company holding more wealth than many countries, with that in mind many governments should make a move to increase funding and research towards asteroid mining. …show more content…
This source of new metals becomes especially important once you consider that Earth’s supply of such metals is rapidly diminishing. Unlike Oil there won’t be massive supplies of it once we figure out how to mine it, governments and corporations won’t find magical new ways to produce trillions worth of Gold, Palladium, Rhodium, Platinum, and other precious metals. If you look at charts South Africa, once the main producer of gold has declined greatly, while it has been replaced by increased production in countries like Russia, that won’t last forever and that boom will eventually die down. But even more pressing than precious metals is the rapidly declining supply of rare earth metals. China is the lead exporter of these rare metals and they are implementing supply cuts in 2020, with the main supplier disappearing we need to find other sources,
NASA helped usher in a promising new future in the 1960s and it was rewarded with a rapidly-eroding budget. The U.S. should invest more money in NASA and less on unnecessary health care and military. Budget cuts are affecting our technology development. Evidently, increasing NASA’s budget to 1 percent of the federal budget will not hurt the economy. But instead it would benefit by creating jobs here on earth, especially for the next generation of American scientists and engineers.
The government gives NASA $16 billion every year. That is only 7% of the federal government’s budget, which is $2.8 trillion. To put it in perspective, for every $2800 of federal government budget, $16 goes to NASA. With more funding, NASA could launch more telescopes, explore other galaxies, and pinpoint exactly where an asteroid will strike. Citizens of the United States of America believe that a huge percent of their taxes go to NASA. The truth is, only one percent of taxes go to scientific research, and half of that goes to NASA. For someone earning $100,000 a year, $1000 goes to scientific research, with half of that going to NASA, only $500. The benefits of continuing to fund NASA, far outweight the costs. Michael Massimino, one of NASA’s astronauts says it best, “you have bills to pay, but you always want to put something away for your kids college fund. NASA is like a college fund, we are the future” (Massimino 1).
For some reason, NASA is just perfectly fine with watching men and women die right in front of them on their own computer screens. The man has been stuck up on Mars for 687 sols. That is 708 days in earth terms. Yes, he is the first person on to not only live, but survive on Mars for 708 days. That gives his hometown some huge publicity and major fame. All of this could have been avoided though. Mark could not gotten severely hurt during the mission. Mark could not have died multiple times while living on Mars. He could have not had to travel with one rover and all the way to the MAV. He could have not lived on limited water, while almost killing himself trying to create more water, while trying to maintain
Specific Purpose Statement: I would like to inform and condense the topic of space exploration into two major branches. These branches are unmanned and manned spaceflight.
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The Soviet Union sent the first satellite in orbit in 1957, to start the marathon of deceptions to be the first country to the moon. The Soviets had a serious head start, sending a dog, Laika, into space, becoming the first country to send a living being into space. The U.S. had some serious catching up to do, and we did not want to be second to the Soviets in anything. Because of the dangerous drive that the U.S. imputed into the quest for domination in space, we were able to top the Soviets, and prove our power once again. Although we ended up victorious in the space race, the country needed to be convinced to join the competition. President Kennedy delivered a riveting speech to Rice university, thoroughly convincing the country of the importance of space exploration. He used many good arguments, and tugged on emotional and ethical heartstrings. His arguments were accurate,
The “gold rush” could soon become the “asteroid rush”. Mining space is something that has never been conducted behind NASA, but behind private companies this is a new venture that can be explored. Although, the technical aspects still need to be worked out and the thought of mining asteroids is ludicrous, this is a very feasible option. Many companies have already constructed a plan on how they could mine these asteroids. In an interview with Elon Musk, he discusses how mining asteroids will one day be able to sustain the space economy. When Musk refers to the space economy he is referencing his idea and plan of one day colonizing Mars along with constant interplanetary travel. “Others [asteroids] are substantial and potentially packed full of water and various important minerals, such as nickel, cobalt, and iron. One day, advocates believe, those objects will be tapped by variations on the equipment used in the coal mines of Kentucky or in the diamond mines of Africa. And for immense gain: According to industry experts, the contents of a single asteroid could be worth trillions of dollars” (Shaer). The thought of wiping out the entire United States debt with one or two successful excavations of an asteroids should be enough to gain public support of privately funded space programs. Although private, these companies will need immense public support. In order to gain billionaire investors and find people willing to risk their life to pioneer space, people want a plan. Private companies such as Blue Origin and SpaceX have provided the world with numerous plans on how we can commercialize space on our journey to discover more of the vast
Have you ever pondered the idea of why every year the temperature of our atmosphere rises? I have done tons of research and I am pleased to say I will be sharing my findings with you! Humans are the leading cause of global climate changes but little do they know everyday activities they participate in are the main offenders. From cutting down trees to driving gasoline powered cars, these activities can cause major changes in our global climates! As the very intelligent Bill Gates states “Climate change is a terrible problem, and it absolutely needs to be solved. It deserves to be a huge priority.” Three major problems that lead to climate changes are deforestation, the burning of fossil fuels, and the use of hydro-carbons in aerosol cans.
My name is Neil McCallum and today I am going to try to persuade you that we’re not alone and that "space critters" are more than just a cluster of ice particles in our universe. You’ve all watched a sci-fi film where aliens come to our planet and start blowing everything up with their UFO’s. These movies are fiction. But what if all these movies were real? What if there is something beyond our knowledge out there, millions of galaxies away?
Is there such thing as life outside of Earth? The building blocks of life are carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen. Those ingredients condense to form all living things, new stars and even new planets! So, who’s to say those ingredients didn’t form other life on other planets? Think about how vast outer space is. There are millions and millions of other planets, stars and galaxies! It’s not that far out there to think that there might be other life in space, in fact, some people even have stone hard evidence that supports the idea of “aliens”. I personally believe there is such thing as extraterrestrials, and I believe they have visited earth before. As a child, I remember my dad and I would sit around all afternoon watching alien documentaries or shows about people hunting aliens and searching for UFOs. When it comes to aliens people have so many questions; have aliens been to earth before? Are they currently living on earth? Are they controlling us? Does the government know? If so, are they hiding it from the public? There are so many questions you can ask but, in order to answer them, you have to
When talking about the current space program, Neil Degrasse Tyson once said, “I got angry with America, because advancing is not just something you do incrementally. You need innovation as well, so that your advances are revolutionary, not merely evolutionary” (Tyson 3). America used to have the top space program in the world. Being first to the moon excited the country and gave everyone a sense of pride and fulfillment. Lately, though, we have been falling behind in space exploration. A successful space program is needed in America, and here’s why: we are losing our grip on the title as the world superpower and a new age of economics and politics is coming faster than we are prepared for. To be prepared for this new age we need the funds,
The incredible progress that mankind has experienced from its early days of eating raw meat in a dark cave to now living quite comfortably even in a wide variety of very difficult environments, landing on the moon and building space stations, conquering numerous diseases, having instant worldwide multimedia communication through the internet, and a long list of other major accomplishments which must be credited to the historical development of scientific knowledge. Needless to say, without science and the scientific method on which it is based, none of the great human accomplishments would be possible. Unfortunately, this marvelous progress has also been continuously marred by social/political conflict where the world today seems constantly
"The military intelligence, two words combined that cannot make sense," Megadeath says in their song Hangar 18, could not be more correct. No matter what the military tells you, they are probably lying or wrong. How can you explain the countless encounters with aliens people have all the time? Missiles?
While no one knows for sure exactly how an invasion may occur it has been the subject of fierce debate by leading scientists and military strategists alike. Who, having spent considerable time and attention exploring the viability of the subject have concluded that it is not a matter of if aliens arrive but when. Movie studios and radio stations have spent many decades producing for our entertainment a plethora of different invasion scenarios. Scenarios from the sublime to the ridiculous that have in equal measure thrilled, excited, frightened and on occasion made us laugh out loud.
One second the Earth may be causally orbiting around the sun, functioning normally, and the next it could be sucked into a rogue black hole, without anyone even knowing until it is too late. In our small world, mankind may seem powerful and unstoppable. However, in the bigger picture, they are just another speck on some tiny planet, somewhere in the middle of the universe. The real question is, what if they weren’t just specks on one tiny planet, but were specks on two planets, Earth, and Mars? On September 28, 2015, scientists from NASA (North American Space Agency) confirmed that liquid water flows on Mars today.