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Permalink Reply by ungodlynews on January 6, 2011 at 7:12pm

Mythbusters does a nice job getting to the bottom of this. http://bit.ly/XDUWQ

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Permalink Reply by Shine on January 6, 2011 at 7:14pm

Lol, great minds think alike and all that. I was just about to search Google for a link to the episode when I got a notification of your post. Thanks for saving me the search! :)

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Permalink Reply by ungodlynews on January 6, 2011 at 7:23pm

I had just watched this vid a couple of days ago! How timely.

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Permalink Reply by Kris Feenstra on January 6, 2011 at 7:28pm

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Permalink Reply by Shine on January 6, 2011 at 7:32pm

LOL

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Permalink Reply by Tommy R. on January 6, 2011 at 7:35pm

And that A-hole deserved the punch. I love Buzz!

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Permalink Reply by Laura Foster on January 7, 2011 at 12:15pm

99% of the time I abhor violence and say it's not the answer.

 

This falls under the other 1%. ;)

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Permalink Reply by Becca on January 6, 2011 at 8:19pm

Yes we did land on the moon and we haven't been back because no one with a space program is making that a priority mainly for financial reasons. Moon landing deniers are no different than any other conspiracy theorist.... wackos.

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Permalink Reply by Becca on January 6, 2011 at 9:38pm

From what we currently know of the moon it has plenty of value to offer. The biggest thing travel to the moon offers is practice/a testing ground for technology that would allow us to gather resources from and explore space to gain more knowledge. We could build our first off world outpost on the moon and fully explore the resources the moon has to offer us and ways to efficiently and effectively get them back to Earth... we can also use it as a jumping off point for mining asteroids or even for a trip to Mars. If we ever want to get off this rock we call home and see if space travel is something our species can achieve we have to start somewhere not sit around twiddling our thumbs and making up excuses for why it isn't worth it.

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Permalink Reply by Julien on January 6, 2011 at 10:14pm

So where do you stand? It has or it hasn't any value? :)

 

I found some interesting numbers. I don't know how accurate they really are, so correct me if I'm wrong.

 

To date, $815 billion dollars has been allocated for the war in Iraq since 2003.

 

To date, $445.1 billion dollars has been allocated for the war in Afghanistan since 2001.

Source.

 

 

The financial cost of the war has been more than £4.55 billion ($9 billion) to the UK, and over $845 billion to the U.S., with the total cost to the U.S. economy estimated at $3 trillion. (Source)

 

Those are a lot of money.

 

Becca and Daniel already pointed out why should we keep focusing on space exploration and space travelling. But instead we keep killing each other.

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Permalink Reply by Becca on January 6, 2011 at 10:56pm

The moon isn't a hurdle to jump then move on. Bad analogy in my opinion. The 'been there done that attitude' of many people is what has contributed to our lack of continued visits to the moon. We still have tons to learn about the moon and to learn from the moon.

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Permalink Reply by Becca on January 7, 2011 at 10:18am

I think you replied to the wrong person.

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