UFO's... What do you think?

[CobyRupert]

as far as war being good. It ain't.

Necessity is the mother of invention. Not war itself. It's a matter of priorities; and whether you make war the priority.
The space program is a good example of what happens when the focus is to advance something other than war. It just happen that the evil .01% psychopaths who run the show have a lot invested in the war machine and using that machine to protect/expand their other investments. That's the priority.
If you're saying war is the mother of all advancement, I guess you're saying mankind can only advance with socialism. That is, only government funded R&D (for weaponry/warfare/) advances mankind.

 

[jerrybob]

We should go to the sun........we could go at night so it wouldn't be so hot......

 

[MossRoad]

Brevity is the soul of wit.

:thumbsup:

 

[k0ua]

But Dave, that can't happen. If the U.S. focused the monetary resources required to develop a successful way to escape Earth at the cost of our military budget we would not be the passengers. The passengers would be some thug nation that quietly stood back and waited for the completion date, then stomped out our existence, because we would have no defense system and took our seats.....

Let see him argue with that!:thumbsup:

 

[MikePA]

..and look what happened to Kennedy. More likely he got a headache because he didn't ramp up the wars enough and go hot with the Ruskies over Cuba like the Generals and their buddies urged.

Ah, yeah. Right. UFOs and Kennedy conspiracy theories in one thread. :shhh:

 

[k0ua]

"we" I mean every nation on this planet and I've been consistent about that. "Humanity" is not just the people in the USA, and "global" is not just the space between NYC and LA.

Just how are we gonna get those folk in the Middle East to focus on an "all mankind" space program?.. They seem more focused on cutting peoples head off. Just saying. :confused3:

 

[/pine]

IMO...Monies (billions) could be saved and redirected...monies lost to gov. by fraud etc and unnecessary programs like the ones that hand out free cell phones etc.etc...as well as monies wasted by the DOD etc...

But...I don't think Any redirected funds to NASA/space exploration etc...should be spent (right now) on trying to develop a program/craft (and underlying technologies) specifically to reach other worlds etc...

...Given the ideal that we humans do not wipe our own selves out over the next 100 years or so (keep the faith)...IMO the utmost thought should be given to protecting the planet from "natural things" we are aware of that could destroy us or reek havoc on our lives etc...but we have no current defense against...

It's unfortunate that al gore and his AGW disciples have poisoned the well when it comes to (falsely) alarming the masses...because there are much worse things to realize and truly be alarmed about enough to demand our government protect our infrastructures from natural catastrophes that could come from our own Sun or elsewhere in space...
...We should be utilizing current technology to master inner space and protect our planet before we try to conquer outer space...BTW we have already polluted the space surrounding Earth...maybe some of that redirected money could go to a program/craft that could start cleaning up after ourselves...!

For any approaching advanced alien life...just to get close to earth an alien commanded craft would have navigate through a literal junkyard of debris we've left floating around out there...nice welcome mat huh?...!