Friday, October 24, 2014
"Getting up" and out there
As a biology major I feel that science and curiosity are everywhere, even in space. When it comes to living and traveling through space, it was only a matter of time until someone began to wonder how sex would work in space. Many people view sex as a sacred act and would rather not spend money on something they don’t feel is progressive enough, but, when it comes to science, everything can become a question and feel progressive, even sex in space. If we look at it like this, the taxpayers could be unhappy that they are paying people to have sex in space. This could be a sign of jealousy or envy. However, I feel that once the program has the taxpayers’ money, they should be allowed to do with it as they will. I feel they should be accountable for the taxpayers opinion, but I don’t feel how they run their program and what things the experiment on should revolve around what the people want. As I stated before, I feel the program should be allowed to spend the money how they want on any experiment they want. In all reality, space travel and living on another planet is becoming closer and closer as a possibility. If we weren’t testing sex now, in a space ship or in space then it would probably be experimented with on the other planet, in which taxpayer money would STILL be funding. To me, it’s a matter of when, not what. It’s hard to run from the inevitable.
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This line of thinking is definitely why public opinion needs to be heavily put aside when it comes to researching and creating necessities for sex and safe, healthy birth in space. It has to happen sometime, and the public is never going to be majorly on board with the idea. NASA needs to choose where their funding goes, and this is a major area to research. Earth's population could become zero tomorrow or in a million years, but we need to be able to repopulate in space when that day comes.
ReplyDeleteI do agree with once they have the money they should use it how they see fit to an extent. If they are using money to research something that will be beneficial to more than just the rich and famous then great, but lets face it when it comes down to the average American person being able to remotely afford to visit mars are even fly on a space shuttle to preform such acts its not gonna be the average Joe. Of course it was going to happen for even the average person to wonder what it would be like but to spend money on such tasks seems a little redundant as this doesn't really "need" to be so heavily researched at this point in time
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