Conquer Club

RiskTycoon wrote:why are we going to Mars or even thinking we need to at some point when we can't/haven't even successfully flourished on our home planet.

that's what I got out of it....or feel about it I guess.

RiskTycoon wrote:why are we going to Mars or even thinking we need to at some point when we can't/haven't even successfully flourished on our home planet.

that's what I got out of it....or feel about it I guess.

• Infrared ear thermometers
• Ventricular assist device
• Artificial Limbs (artificial muscle sensing, robotic sensors, etc.)
• Light-emitting diodes in medical therapies
• Invisible braces (protection vs. heat-seeking missiles)
• Space blanket (lightweight, reflect IR radiation, often used in first-aid kits)

Save the Children is to be applauded for reminding us all of one of the most extraordinary and humiliating aspects of living in the modern world: child hunger. Drawing a parallel with the fight to abolish slavery, the Ghanaian philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah recently asked what future generations will condemn us for. One sure candidate is the needless human carnage wrought by hunger. Some 850 million people (one in eight of the world's population) go to bed hungry every night. Many of them are children, for whom early hunger leaves a lifelong legacy of cognitive and physical impairment. The human and economic waste is horrifying.

Such hunger is not due to a shortage of food – globally there is enough to go round and if (a big if) we make the right decisions now, we can continue to feed the world despite population growth and climate change. By some estimates, stopping the waste of food after harvest due to poor storage or transport infrastructure, and then in our own kitchens, could free up half of all food grown. The number of overweight and obese people in the world, suffering their own health problems, including a sharp rise in heart disease and diabetes, is roughly equal to the number of hungry people. That highlights one of the underlying causes of hunger – extreme levels of inequality, both within and between countries.

How much does it cost to solve world hunger?

World hunger can be eradicated.

A price has been set and estimated by the United Nations to solve this crisis – $30 billion a year. It may seem like a large sum of money, but when compared to the U.S. defense budget – $737 billion in 2012 – $30 billion seems more attainable. The $30 billion expense is manageable, especially when the U.S. would be joined by other investors in global poverty, but the U.S. has the capacity to be the leader on this issue.

• Aircraft anti-icing systems
• Improved radial tires (made from a fibrous material 5x stronger than steel developed for Viking Lander parachutes on, that's right, Mars)
• Chemical detection - sensors to warn of corrosive conditions on aircraft before damage occurs

• Video enhancing and analysis (law enforcement and military applications)
• Fire-resistant reinforcement - developed for the Apollo heat shield, now used for aircraft, high-rise buildings, and public structures, allowing more time to escape in case of a fire
• Firefighting equipment - lightweight equipment developed for the US Space program, now in wide use in the US - lightweight breathign apparatus, short-range two-way radio, mask weighing less than 3 ounces that protects from injury, fire-retardant suits

• Temper foam - memory foam - high-energy absorption, comfort - mattresses, pillows, aircraft, automobiles, motorcycles, furniture, human and animal prostheses, etc.
• Enriched baby food - lifes'DHA and life'sARA, based on microalgae, in 90% of the baby food in the US and infant forumulas all over the world
• Portable cordless vacuums - developed for extracting core samples, led to the Dustbuster vacuum
• Freeze drying - simple nutritious meals for people who are homebound

• Water purification - developed to give astronauts lean drinking water, provides affordable, clean water in underdeveloped countries where water may be contaminated
• Pollution - Petroleum Remediation Product that can clean pollutants from water

macbone wrote:No, funky, those discoveries were made in order to better facilitate launching rockets and shuttles and surviving up in space. They weren't serendipitous at all. They were made with the express intention of doing space exploration more efficiently and effectively. Necessity, after all, is the mother of invention.

More discoveries and innovations brought about by space exploration, from that same page:

Transportation

• Aircraft anti-icing systems
• Improved radial tires (made from a fibrous material 5x stronger than steel developed for Viking Lander parachutes on, that's right, Mars)
• Chemical detection - sensors to warn of corrosive conditions on aircraft before damage occurs

Public safety

• Video enhancing and analysis (law enforcement and military applications)
• Fire-resistant reinforcement - developed for the Apollo heat shield, now used for aircraft, high-rise buildings, and public structures, allowing more time to escape in case of a fire
• Firefighting equipment - lightweight equipment developed for the US Space program, now in wide use in the US - lightweight breathign apparatus, short-range two-way radio, mask weighing less than 3 ounces that protects from injury, fire-retardant suits

Consumer, home, and recreation

• Temper foam - memory foam - high-energy absorption, comfort - mattresses, pillows, aircraft, automobiles, motorcycles, furniture, human and animal prostheses, etc.
• Enriched baby food - lifes'DHA and life'sARA, based on microalgae, in 90% of the baby food in the US and infant forumulas all over the world
• Portable cordless vacuums - developed for extracting core samples, led to the Dustbuster vacuum
• Freeze drying - simple nutritious meals for people who are homebound

Environment and agriculture

• Water purification - developed to give astronauts lean drinking water, provides affordable, clean water in underdeveloped countries where water may be contaminated
• Pollution - Petroleum Remediation Product that can clean pollutants from water

And the list goes on. =)

Duk, obviously the end-goal here it to replicate the game Alpha Centauri. =)

Funkyterrance wrote: NASA is just an obsolete department, let's face it.

macbone wrote:No, funky, those discoveries were made in order to better facilitate launching rockets and shuttles and surviving up in space. They weren't serendipitous at all. They were made with the express intention of doing space exploration more efficiently and effectively. Necessity, after all, is the mother of invention.

More discoveries and innovations brought about by space exploration, from that same page:

Transportation

• Aircraft anti-icing systems
• Improved radial tires (made from a fibrous material 5x stronger than steel developed for Viking Lander parachutes on, that's right, Mars)
• Chemical detection - sensors to warn of corrosive conditions on aircraft before damage occurs

Public safety

• Video enhancing and analysis (law enforcement and military applications)
• Fire-resistant reinforcement - developed for the Apollo heat shield, now used for aircraft, high-rise buildings, and public structures, allowing more time to escape in case of a fire
• Firefighting equipment - lightweight equipment developed for the US Space program, now in wide use in the US - lightweight breathign apparatus, short-range two-way radio, mask weighing less than 3 ounces that protects from injury, fire-retardant suits

Consumer, home, and recreation

• Temper foam - memory foam - high-energy absorption, comfort - mattresses, pillows, aircraft, automobiles, motorcycles, furniture, human and animal prostheses, etc.
• Enriched baby food - lifes'DHA and life'sARA, based on microalgae, in 90% of the baby food in the US and infant forumulas all over the world
• Portable cordless vacuums - developed for extracting core samples, led to the Dustbuster vacuum
• Freeze drying - simple nutritious meals for people who are homebound

Environment and agriculture

• Water purification - developed to give astronauts lean drinking water, provides affordable, clean water in underdeveloped countries where water may be contaminated
• Pollution - Petroleum Remediation Product that can clean pollutants from water

And the list goes on. =)

Duk, obviously the end-goal here it to replicate the game Alpha Centauri. =)

AndyDufresne wrote:

Funkyterrance wrote: NASA is just an obsolete department, let's face it.

Of all the parts of the government that my tax money goes to, NASA is probably the one thing I am pretty okay with all the time.


--Andy