Russell Howell Mrs. Grandolfo English 12‚ Period 3 February 7‚ 2012 Reaping the Benefits of Space Exploration Curiosity has been the driving force behind the human race ever since the first Homo sapiens have started walking. Our very survival and dominance of Planet Earth has only resulted from our ability to solve problems and innovate to accomplish our goals. This uncanny problem solving ability of the Human race doesn’t even restrict us terrestrially‚ as it has propelled us into the “heavens”
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Is space exploration worth the cost? by David Livingston Monday‚ January 21‚ 2008 Editor’s Note: On January 11‚ the New York Times blog “Freakonomics” published a lengthy post titled “Is Space Exploration Worth the Cost? A Freakonomics Quorum”. The post featured comments provided by a number of people‚ including David Livingston‚ in response to the question. The part attributed to Dr. Livingston was just a highly-edited version of what he originally submitted to the Times. What follows is
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the year that launched the modern world into motion with satellites‚ space stations‚ and wireless connections around the world. The passages presented are introductory passages to a larger excerpt that remains unpresented. Both passages use stylistic and rhetorical devices to capture their opinions and easily convey their standings on space exploration. Passage 1 uses diction to produce and satisfy his opinion of space exploration
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an exceptional technologically savvy country through his superior to any other‚ achievements of being the first of many situations as a Canadian in space. Firstly‚ Chris Hadfield became the first Canadian in to walk in space‚ thus portraying Canada’s eagerness to participate in larger affairs further developing the Canadian identity. Space exploration was once heavily dominated by the larger powers of the world‚ Canada was merely seen as a helper in the bigger picture. The nation was ignored and heavily
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beyond earth like Mars. We even have space station for human to live on it for temporary of time‚ but that is not enough there are still a lot more to found out and discover. Here is why space exploration is good. Curiosity is what drive us human to learn more‚ to do more‚ to discover more. As our Technology get better each year‚ we are able discover more unknowns and challenge the boundaries of what limit us from going further. As we continue space exploration‚ we will ultimately answer these questions
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another planet‚ most possibly Mars‚ and start again‚ but applying what we have learned from our mistakes on the Earth? That has been a controversial topic on recently years more than ever‚ mainly due to the fast-growing possibility we find on space exploration and especially on Mars colonies foundation. As you could realize on the stories I mentioned at the beginning‚ we are no longer safe in any place nor at home; and a nuclear war is not the only threat we consider nowadays on Earth‚ there are others
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Space Exploration Persuasive Paper Imagine you are homeless‚ sleeping different places every night. You rarely have two meals a day. One day you are walking down the street and the ground starts to shake. You look up and see a fiery trail pushing a rocket into the great unknown of space. And then you continue to walk down the street wondering if you will get another meal that day. Space exploration funding should be decreased because too much money is spend already‚ we need to fully develop the
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mankind.” These are the exact words spoken by astronaut Neil Armstrong when he and his crew landed “The Eagle” on the moon’s surface. This “giant leap” led to many great expeditions that furthered the exploration of space. Because Armstrong‚ Aldrin‚ and Collins were very brave traveling up to space‚ a whole new perspective of the world opened up for the people of America. The best cause of the first Moon walk would be NASA’s goals. NASA’s goals were to first land astronauts on the Moon and and
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Space exploration and society Space exploration advanced a lot through the last years. Especially during the Cold War‚ when the United States and the Soviet Union were competing between themselves and invested a lot of money in that issue. Ever sinse‚ USA continued on with this project and sent ships into outer space to explore the endless universe thinking to bring up something interesting. In these recent 20-30 years space exploration has really affected the world. Billions of money is put into
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of space exploration is a controversial issue‚ our past explorations have had a lasting impact on mankind. If the government were to put more money into space exploration many benefits would be awarded to us. Although the explorations may take an enormous amount of money‚ time‚ and research‚ it also promises us astronomic profits in return. Many of us don’t understand all of the benefits that come along with space exploration‚ and how in the long run‚ they could outweigh the negative effects. Space
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