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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This thread is so depressing.  Americans really have lost any sense of exploration and curiosity.

OP, do you like using your cell phone?  Do you like knowing when a hurricane is going to hit? Do you like mamograms? How about camera phones? GPS? Tang?

Thank the space program.

Landing on the moon gave us a target through which all sorts or rocket science and space operations developed.[/quote]

Which of those technologies could have been developed without landing on the moon? (Hint: All of them)

Why do you think there's only one way to show curiosity?

And to the loon who is comparing the space program with European exploration: You look back at that and think "Wow, really worked out great for most of the planet!"?[/quote]

Landing on the moon was somewhat pointless. We already had satellites which would have driven the technologies mentioned. Robotic landers would have been a better choice as far as safety, but less interesting to the general public. It is generally claimed that humans as expert systems were necessary to find the interesting material on the moon. But we sent test pilots, not geologists.[/quote]

What’s the point of anything, really?[/quote]

There is some natural curiosity about the moon. It's not clear it was necessary to send men to the moon to get the answers. Robotic explorers would have have been far less risky.[/quote]

What would be the point of sending robotic explorers?  By your own “logic”  that would also be completely unnecessary.  I’d actually like to read some of you naysayers articulate precisely which human activities have some inherent “point” and why you think so.[/quote]

By your logic, we can't explore Mars unless we send a manned craft. Otherwise, you couldn't pique public interest. I believe that would be a counterfactual belief given the interest in the Mars rovers a few years ago.

My opinion is that it's not necessary to send men to the Moon. That was mostly a political game we were playing with the Russians in the 1960s. Why we are going again, I have no idea. [/quote]

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