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Nations after nations, every day, every year, celebrates its
achievements in space exploration. However, it is now the time to question how
meaningful these blasts are. This essay aims to explain why it is
questionable.
First,
until all urgent and important matters of the globe have been solved, money bumped on space exploration is meaningless.
It is not a common sense at all to invest millions of dollars
researching and producing foods for astronauts (for space exploration purpose),
while every day thousands of people are starving. Furthermore, the discovery of
outer space only serves a minor group of people if the majority are even not well-educated. Those in rural areas or third-world
nations do no even know how to
prevent common threatening diseases such as AIDS and lung cancer.
Then, some may
argue that the purpose of space exploration are to discover new lands, new energy
resources or to deter potential threat to globe.
Nevertheless, is it effective to do so while other alternatives are available? Lands on earth are no yet effectively used. New energy resources
(e.g. solar and nuclear energy) have not yet been widely-used. Threats of
plagues have not yet been deterred. All of these tasks that haven’t been
tackled yet require money. That is why costly space discovery programs are a
waste of resources.
In a nutshell,
people should only invest in space exploration provided that urgent and
important matters mentioned earlier in this essay have been solved. Also,
purposes of space exploration campaigns should be studied carefully and other
alternatives should be considered before the money is wasted.
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