Joel Levine: Why we need to go back to Mars
Posted by admin in Finance Monday, 24 May 2010 18:55 25 Comments
www.ted.com At TEDxNASA, planetary scientist Joel Levine shows some intriguing — and puzzling — new discoveries about Mars craters full of ice, traces of ancient oceans, and some compelling hints at the presence, at some time in the past, of life. He makes the case for going back to Mars to find out more.TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world’s leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes. Featured speakers have included Al Gore on climate change, Philippe Starck on design, Jill Bolte Taylor on observing her own stroke, Nicholas Negroponte on One Laptop per Child, Jane Goodall on chimpanzees, Bill Gates on malaria and mosquitoes, Pattie Maes on the “Sixth Sense” wearable tech, and “Lost” producer JJ Abrams on the allure of mystery. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, development and the arts. Closed captions and translated subtitles in a variety of languages are now available on TED.com, at www.ted.com Watch a highlight reel of the Top 10 TEDTalks at www.ted.com
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@koren1124
I think theres public support for science, but apparently bombs and bullets are more important to the politicians who decide on the budget.
@quezcatol
The third page of the ‘summary tables section’ is particularly enlightening. you can see on line 1 column 2 – tot security outlays (military spending) $844 B
and on line 12 col 2 – total outlays $3,643 B
(Military spending) / (total spending) = .231 = 23%
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@quezcatol
sure there are nations that spend little on military and little on science but I dont see how thats relevant to how we in the US choose to spend our money.
assuming your talking about my claim about the national budget, no I didnt “hear that from hippies” I read the us federal budget summary, its available at whitehouse(dot)gov if you want to check it out. (cont.)
@aSheeple Yes, because every other european noation who doesnt spend money on the military still lack anything close to Nasa, so clearly the only answere is stop spending money on the military, who told you that? some hippies?
One question though, will this be powered by jet fuel? And if so, it won’t be up in the “air” for long right?!
@aSheeple You’re absolutely right, and from what I’ve seen we can cut the war/defense budget by say 75%, and still out spend the rest of the world by about a factor of 3.
Then with all the extra money (something like $500 Billion) per YEAR, we can set up regular cruises to Mars. Right after we fix world hunger, poverty, and education; and then going on to get them electricity and clean water too. Then with the 2nd years surplus maybe even fix our OWN education and social security systems too.
At 01:54 he says: Yes, the red planet is red. Immediately after that at 02:04 he shows a yellow mars hahaha
ok, I see that he wants to go to mars, because it is interesting and because he put a lot of work into that. but i still don’t see the neccessity.
Jet fuelled? Why wouldn’t they make it solar powered with propellers, surely that would give it a longer life wouldn’t it?
@riceman1230 I’m with you on the lighter than air idea brother. Those mighty little rovers are evidence of the surprising reliability that can be achieved.
If you use rockets in an atmosphere if methane wont that be like farting onto a lighter flame?
@1994kman In general, people in the western world spend more on RINGTONES than they do on space programs and helping people. If it’s a redistribution of wealth that you’re after then you’re barking up the wrong tree.
@ChristFavorsME …..no i was talking about a hidden civilization below the surface…………..
@ChristFavorsME …..no i was talking about a hidden civilization below the surface…………..
@ChristFavorsME …..no i was talking about a hidden civilization below the surface…………..
@rileyo629
Martians…
somebody phone Obama and tell him to start writing a check!!
@chvick mars is our planet. who else would it belong to?
@1994kman
Truly noble, and yes we should. However, an optimal overall plan should work towards solving current problems, prevent future problems, improving current conditions, and thinking for the future. ie, solve world hunger, cure AIDS, fight poverty, and get into space (respectively). If we don’t start now, when? “Later” is procrastination. The time to act is now. So, we need to do these things you said, but we should also go to Mars or the moon again or start more space stations.
There is no valid reason to go to mars i’m sorry… Nice try though. We have a hard enough time trying to understand our own planet never mind one we can’t live on. Yes science should be funded but put it into our own planet.
Subduction on Mars? lol
It’s hard to digest, the assumption that Mars was covered in liquid H20. Odd that it’s accepted as fact.
The presence of all that ice is amazing. And methane too! If they go to Mars, I hope they send a drill rig.
The US must amp up the educational standards if they hope to produce the next generation of scientists to continue the legacy of the great country that used to be the United States.
awesome
We have liquid water, we have ice lol