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Making A Case That Space Exploration Sucks

February 3, 2012

R.F.Wilson writes from London: How come anyone who talks about aliens and other civilizations that supposedly populate distant planets are always taken so seriously? Did they ever offer any proof that alien life exists? No, they didn’t. And did any benefits come from that endless search for other forms of life and space exploration as a whole? None at all, although the money spent could have been used on something more worthwhile. Like learning to predict the weather correctly, for the next day at least.

Which brings me to Professor Stephen Hawkings and his regular rumblings on aliens. Everyone seems to be under the impression that Mr Hawkins knows something that no one else does, having written several books on space that no one has yet managed to read to the end. Why is he supposedly an expert on other civilizations? What is no one ridiculing him when he comes up with his statements that strange looking beings are out there, watching us and all that.

And recently we’ve had politicians in America getting all excited all of a sudden about the useless space exploration. Republican presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich had announced that should he get into the White House this year, he’d authorize to build a permanent base on the Moon. Not to be outdone by him, other presidential hopefuls and even Mr Barack Obama himself started hinting that they would be ready to blow some serious money on space projects. Despite the fact that America is bankrupt and has no money even to sort out its economy.

Hopefully, this is all electioneering and nothing else. Austerity and probing the depths of the unknown in the universe don’t go well together. Which should be a relief for everyone, considering how much money has been already wasted on space exploration.

The problem is of course that space scientists refuse to give up and continue to produce drivel about the need to colonise other planets and search for other civilisations. They even insist that Mars has water reserves beneath its surface, making it supposedly a great place for humans to reside. Some claim that there could have been life on Mars and that there must be signs of it there somewhere.

For my part, I’ve always been convinced that there was nothing up there in the first place. We’ve had a burst of excitement in the 1960s about the Moon. There were enthusiasts then who were saying that they had seen mysterious movements on the Moon through their telescopes and that cracks and lines on the surface convinced them that there could be ice and even water there. Some scientists were even predicting that remnants of living creatures would be found on the Moon. We could learn so much about the universe and our own planet by studying the moon and sending men up there, they were saying.

And, of course, everyone was nodding and smiling and hoping that other civilisations had left messages on the Moon, so that we could soon find out that we were not alone in the universe.

But after several Apollo missions all we were left with were rocks. Big rocks, small rocks and pebbles that told us nothing that we didn’t know already: that the Moon is a dead planet and has always been like that. It was a major disappointment for all the keen enthusiasts of space exploration and, especially, for fans of Star Trek and Star Wars and all that other rubbish.

In their hearts scientists, including Professor Hawkins, probably know that there is no one out there. But if they accept defeat, you see, they won’t get any money for their research and all their books about space would not be published. So even though there is a recession going on, cunningly presented as a ‘sluggish recovery’ by politicians and slimy bankers, they keep on demanding on more money wasted on space exploration. As if we don’t have enough problems on Mother Earth to sort out.

Sort out the mess closer to home, I say, and then go looking for aliens in outer space.

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  • invisible me

    Staring into space was punishable by a leather belt across your hand by the teacher at one time… NOW IT  IS TRENDY and A MONEY MAKING EXPLOIT hmm.

    People probable are too polite to tell Stephen that it is ok to stare into space.. if that’s really all you have to do all day – meanwhile some of us have real jobs looking after THIS planet and its people!

    Note to well meaning scientists:  pssst  Stephen is heavily medicated due to his health condition…just sayin’  y’know  lil green men and all that.

    I am still laughing at that moon landing film…heehee

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