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| Rhysy27 | Date: Monday, 27.01.2014, 18:17 | Message # 1 |
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| So for my essay I am researching this question I've chosen. I need some feedback on this question so I can analyse the results later. I would appreciate if you guys could help me out! Maybe posting this on forums dedicated to a space simulator wasn't the best for un-bias results, but oh well!
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| Billy_Mayes | Date: Monday, 27.01.2014, 18:42 | Message # 2 |
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| I don't see any reason why not. I think most users here will probably vote yes.
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| SpaceEngineer | Date: Monday, 27.01.2014, 18:45 | Message # 3 |
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| I would be interesting to watch statistics from some non-profiled place, like livejournal or historical forum. Do you have it?
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| Rhysy27 | Date: Monday, 27.01.2014, 18:51 | Message # 4 |
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| Quote I think most users here will probably vote yes.
That's what I assumed also. 
Quote ...like livejournal or historical forum. Do you have it?
I do not, although now I might just have a gander at those ones. 
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| DIS7RICT | Date: Monday, 27.01.2014, 22:19 | Message # 5 |
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| Of course. I think it's for the best, and I couldn't stand it if we stopped Space Exploration. Although I would have Space Engine to keep me occupied.
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| HarbingerDawn | Date: Monday, 27.01.2014, 23:15 | Message # 6 |
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| Historically, the systematic expansion of human knowledge through science has been dramatically beneficial to our species (I could write for days on exactly how). Space exploration plays an important role in this expansion of understanding, as well as providing valuable services that spawn technology development, save billions of dollars and thousands of lives annually through things such as weather forecasting, and stabilize international relations by allowing nations to know what each other is doing, which limits the influence of the more aggressive and paranoid elements in a government who feel it prudent to assume that potential adversaries are more dangerous than they truly are.
It is also the case that humanity, and eventually all life on Earth, are doomed if we remain on this planet. Supervolcanic eruptions, catastrophic climate change, asteroid impacts, super-viral outbreak, and ultimately the expansion of the Sun, all threaten our species and our biosphere. Most of these threats will inevitably happen. The only way our species can reliably survive indefinitely is if we spread across multiple worlds, and ideally multiple star systems. This limits the amount of damage any single cataclysm can inflict. Spreading life to other places in the cosmos is the only way to give it a good chance for long-term survival.
And those important practical matters aside, it is in the nature of our species to explore and expand our horizons. Space is the only option for that to be an everlasting endeavor.
So obviously, yes, we should continue space exploration.
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| NovaSilisko | Date: Monday, 27.01.2014, 23:30 | Message # 7 |
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| Okay, who voted "no"?
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| Proteus | Date: Tuesday, 28.01.2014, 00:43 | Message # 8 |
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| Quote SpaceEngineer (  ) I would be interesting to watch statistics from some non-profiled place, like livejournal or historical forum. Do you have it?
This ^^
I find it odd that such a question is polled on a space-exploration-simulation-game website, as if the option of "no" could be anywhere near a popular answer among such a community. 
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| Disasterpiece | Date: Tuesday, 28.01.2014, 01:11 | Message # 9 |
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| Quote NovaSilisko ( ) Okay, who voted "no"?
Exactly, the guy has an account on a space dedicated forum (which is also why these results are very much skewed from the actual numbers)!
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| DIS7RICT | Date: Tuesday, 28.01.2014, 04:16 | Message # 10 |
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| Quote Proteus ( ) I find it odd that such a question is polled on a space-exploration-simulation-game website, as if the option of "no" could be anywhere near a popular answer among such a community.
Because if there was a reason for "no" it wouldn't be a very good one. The only main excuse would be cost, and that can be cut down on elsewhere.
Quote HarbingerDawn ( ) I could write for days on exactly how
I know right.
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| Rhysy27 | Date: Tuesday, 28.01.2014, 09:05 | Message # 11 |
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| Even though I posted it on these forums at least I can get arguments for it 
I'll have to look elsewhere for against arguments.
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| neutronium76 | Date: Wednesday, 05.03.2014, 03:20 | Message # 12 |
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| Quote Rhysy27 ( ) I'll have to look elsewhere for against arguments.
Ok. Here is one against argument.
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| DeathStar | Date: Wednesday, 05.03.2014, 17:16 | Message # 13 |
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| Quote neutronium76 ( ) Ok. Here is one against argument.
How is that supposed to be an against argument? It isn't like war would be nonexistent without space exploration...
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