/mlpol/ - My Little Politics

>>96852
Nasa should continue to be funded because, as a research program that's backed by the GDP of a nation, it's capable of undertaking missions that may not pan out to produce results that will produce profit. Missions that you would probably never be able to convince a board of investors to back. They are the trailblazers of technology that can afford to follow paths that may be dead ends.

Together government funded space programs and private industries will symbiotically help each other. NASA and its peers will push the envelope by discovering what can be done. Private industry will build upon that trailblazing by optimizing and streamlining those government funded discoveries. From that foothold solidified by Private industry, government exploratory programs will push the envelope even further.

In short, programs like NASA can take something thought impossible and make it possible. Private industry takes the possible and makes it routine. From the routine, new challenges will be within our reach.

>What is your guy's opinion of the space industry, and space exploration itself?
we are going to see the industry Wake off in the next two decades. I think that microsatellites,space tourism, and protien crystals are going to be the largest industries in the beginning.
>Do you think NASA should continue to be funded, or should it be disolved and space be left to private companies?
NASA should be used mostly for space exploration until it is profitable for more companies to start exploring on their own.

The secret militarisation of space is going fine. Thanks for asking. NASA public acting isn't needed any more.

>>96870
>The secret militarisation of space is going fine.
Is it really a secret? I mean everyone knows about it this point.

the NRO is more pressing

It will set a precedent in history if the only efficient space faring technology is developed and put under the control of private corporations. The next superpowers in a time far from us will have global power because of the amount of resources in Space. There is such a great quantity of valuable resources that are mined on earth that are found in the asteroids of our solar system. Private businesses have but one goal; making a profit. Essentially if we just let private companies make all the fancy rockets and they make money out of it then we'll be signing off the future of the concept of nation states outside our planet where where the driving of humanity isn't the progress of a people to the stars, but for a small few to make a buck. But I donno, isn't Space X and the like all partnered with NASA?

Tbh fam, nations should control the destiny of space exploration and future exploits like colonization. I don't like the thought of a few companies having complete control over interstellar travel.

>>96891
The government is too busy replacing their population with the dumbest 3rd worlders they can find. If the government wants to get their heads out of their asses then more power to them, but as of now our best chance to get to space is with private companies.

I've always been torn by my natural desire to see space explored and my concerns about how much money it tends to cost to do it that could potentially be put towards more pressing things. I guess I think we should continue funding NASA for now, but long-term should be moving towards privatizing it. The Internet started off as a government project and moved very slowly at first; as soon as companies realized the commercial potential and started developing it the technology took off. If it had stayed a government project we'd probably just now be getting 56k modems, if we even had public internet at all. I think the same model could be applied to space.

>>96852
The exploration of space is the the single greatest scientific endeavor humanity has yet undertaken, and will remain uncontested until we develop advanced genetic engineering or true AI or something.
the long term survival of humanity can more or less be summed up as do we make it into space or not.

the problem with nasa is that its more or less been run into the ground by government mismanagement.
the reusable rockets the private companies are building are already far beyond anything nasa's doing.
the single biggest hurdle in serious space science right now is the obscene cost of getting anything up there.

and the unfortunate truth is I honestly don't think were gonna make it before society collapses, literally every pillar holding the world up is eroding.