Exploring space instead of feeding africans or poor people in general is more preferable!

OK, there are soo many reasons why we should not stop space travelling. Here follow the benefits of space exploration and why you should be grateful for this step: - more accurate forecasts because they can use satellites to monitor the pressure of wind and temperature -mining minerals on the moon and planets - learning more about the universe and its creation -Broading our horizons and understanding the universe -reaching finally a conclusion on whether we are alone in the universe - Colonization-very important as we have to fid a solution to overpopulation -Technology Advancements -Protect ourselves ad our planet (NASA"s Earth Science division, NASA-funded research that scans the skies for dangerous asteroids and and missions to asteroids that teach us how we might be able to divert them from a collision course, should the need arise) -Answering the big questions -International Collaboration -Inspire people and especially the young ones who have Furthermore, one of the largest ways we benefit from space research is the inventions which we enjoy on a day to day basis which stem directly from NASA research or other space research. (They are many so I decided to make a new category and not just add them in the "advantages of space exploration" list). Some of these are: - the fire-proof clothing used by fire-fighters - safety grooving on roads, which helps defer water from the road surface and has reduced road accidents by an estimated 85% since it was first implemented. - baby formula - a bioscience company in Marylin was testing the potential of algea as a food source in space exploration, and found that one of the algea additives contained aspects close to human breast milk. - scratch proof lenses - the film used in the average Lens for glasses was actually developed by NASA - medical imaging - smoke detectors - the first ever smoke detector was invented by NASA and used in 'skylab' the first ever space station. All in all, space research has helped us become what we are now and become more developed as beings. And you prefer to toss all these benefits in the trash because of some poor children that don't have food. Haven't you ever thought that giving them food might not solve the problem of famine? Haven't you ever thought that the only thing we'll eventually do is a hole in the water? We'll quit sending space crafts in the universe and our effort to develop more, so as to provide a FEW people with food for a FEW days! So what? To solve this problem we need to help them become independent, have a good governor or government and develop their own civilization instead of waiting for us to go there and give them a bowl of boiled porridge. And this is AIN'T gonna happen!! Do you know why? Because the USA and other powerful countries want them to continue living this way in order to extract oil and other natural sources from their grounds and sell them weapons to kill each other! Because there are countries that benefit from their way of living and won't let such a thing happen! THIS IS WHY! But the problem of famine can't be solved for other reasons, too. First, consider this fact: "Almost half the world " over three billion people " live on less than $2.50 a day. So let"s say we decide to go all out and use massive government tax revenues to pay for new aid. Assume with this tax money we give each poor person another $3 per day. We spend: $3 x 3 billion people x 365 days = $3.3 trillion per year $3.3 trillion is the same as all US federal taxes collected in a year. $3.3 trillion is about the size of the entire economy of Germany. And how much did we lift the poor? Instead of each of the 3 billion poor having on average $2.50 per day, each now has $5.50. Yes, that"s better, but the people are still very poor. But keep in mind too that spending $3.3 trillion per year to help the poor was meant as an extreme example of trying to lift the poor noticeably " and this spending level is completely unrealistic."* If history has shown us anything, it"s that the poor will always be with us: The vast swaths of destitute people in this world are largely a result of corrupt and incompetent governments that habitually mismanage the economies of entire countries. For example, millions have starved to death in North Korea, while the people in well-run South Korea next door live in abundance. In Zimbabwe, once the bread basket of Africa, in a generation strongman Robert Mugabe destroyed the economy of the country. And many, many other countries of the world are horribly run places too. This map (http://www.transparency.org...) from Transparency International shows corruption rankings for countries around the world. The countries colored in any shade of red are very corrupt places, and deep poverty often accompanies this kind of corruption. Another factor in how a country does at alleviating poverty is it ranking for economic freedom, as captured in this map. Note how most of the countries that rank poorly on the corruption map also rank poorly on the map for economic freedom. Governments that are really bad in one way tend to be bad in others too. To be clear, corruption and a lack of robust economic freedom in a country does not always lock a country into poverty. After all, China ranks poorly on both measures yet China has managed to grow steadily for decades. But even if there are exceptions to the rule, in general high corruption in government and a lack of economic freedom will tend to keep a nation"s people poor. In the case of China, the central rulers have made a focused effort to sustain high economic growth. This effort, along with the Chinese cultural knack for being good at business, at least for now has offset the otherwise bad government in China. It should be noted that China for years had much worse government than today, one that completely stifled economic freedom. Between 1958 and 1962 forty five million people starved to death in China due to Mao"s communist policies. So any country, if the government gets bad enough, will have its people mired in terrible poverty. It"s important to note that you will never find a country that ranks low in corruption and high economic freedom " and the people there are not quickly leaving the worst kinds of poverty behind. Good government is the only sure way out of poverty for the people of any country. In cases where we can provide a net benefit to the economically abused people of badly run countries, we can and should provide aid to help the poor souls living there. But rushing in ever more aid to help the destitute people in these countries is not a long term solution. The idea that if we would only spend say another $50 billion, or $100 billion, or $500 billion per year this will somehow allow us to band-aid over the underlying problem of awful governments is just wishful thinking. But this is the implication for what is needed by those who shout that more aid is always the answer. At some point spending more on trying to save the world"s poor is like trying to treat cancer by providing bigger and newer bandages. No amount of money can make a significant difference in many countries until the governments themselves " the cancers " are reformed or replaced. Rapid economic growth is the only proven solution to ending widespread poverty, and this is only reliably enabled by having a decently managed free market economy. So should we take the $40 billion per year for the Enterprise and instead give it out to the poor of the world in one form of aid or another? The truth is we can never spend enough to lift the billions of people living in poverty when the fundamental problem is that they are ruled over by bad governments. We delude ourselves if we think we can simply spent a lot more money through our government and make a significant difference. Some even argue that we in the developed nations are hurting the poor with our aid: Economist Dambisa Moyo writes: "Yet evidence overwhelmingly demonstrates that aid to Africa has made the poor poorer, and the growth slower. " Over the past 60 years at least $1 trillion of development-related aid has been transferred from rich countries to Africa. Yet real per-capita income today is lower than it was in the 1970s, and more than 50% of the population " over 350 million people " live on less than a dollar a day, a figure that has nearly doubled in two decades." ** To sum up, in terms of science, 99.999 per cent of all that we need to know is off-world. It"s inconceivable that we don"t send more human beings out there to find out more about it. "What about the poor," or "what about the slums," is a POOR (pun intended) reason to avoid a project of this kind, not to mention that we'll NOT SOLVE ANY SOCIAL PROLEM BY JUST FEEDING SOME POOR PEOPLE! We have to face the CAUSE of the problem and not its effects! I would like to finish with a quote of a very famous novelist, poet and playwright that I admire: "In spite of the opinions of certain narrow-minded people, who would shut up the human race upon this globe, as within some magic circle which it must never outstep, we shall one day travel to the moon, the planets, and the stars, with the same facility, rapidity, and certainty as we now make the voyage from Liverpool to New York." Jules Verne, From the Earth to the Moon, 1865*** Thank you! Sources: *http://www.buildtheenterprise.org... **http://online.wsj.com... ***http://caro1120.hubpages.com...