if there is no life other then us y did nasa launch a satellite that tells about earth?? on the satellite there is photos of man and woman and earth.

if there is no life other then us y did nasa launch a satellite that tells about earth?? on the satellite there is photos of man and woman and earth.

Maybe we could have included a couple more things in Voyager's data set. I was thinking perhaps "Independece day" or "War of the worlds" to provide them with visiting ideas....

I view the voyager module as a mesage in a bottle.

yea, more of my tax money being put to sh** use from the government....this is what pisses me off...they spend billions of dollar on nasa equipment like this...its ridiculous. Sending probes and satelites into space with my tax money...just pisses me off...there i sno PROOF OF E.T and if one does find these probes...i hope they come here and bust NASA's heads open for polluting the space.

nasa is getting too much money....and u just dont understand where im coming from because ur in the UK. I just hope all these space shuttle just keep on blowing up...so me and my grey alien friends can laugh and get drunk while i see my tax dollars and retirement money just blow up on TV....because i know im not getting put to good use. our country spends way too money on dumb things...when they should be spending money on helping out others and communities.

Sending probes and satelites into space with my tax money...just pisses me off...

Putting NASA's Budget in Perspective
(Unless otherwise indicated, the dollar figures cited in this webpage were obtained from The World Almanac and Book of Facts 2000, World Almanac Books, PRIMEDIA Reference Inc., 1999, ISBN 0-88687-847-0.)
The federal government spent roughly $14 billion ( on NASA in fiscal year 1999. That's a lot of money! But what does that mean? How much is $14B? For most folks $14B is merely an abstract concept.
This webpage aims to put NASA's budget in perspective by comparing this $14B figure with other governmental and private expenditures in the United States.
For example, in fiscal year (FY) 1999, total federal expenditures were $1,699,217 million (M) -- approximately $1.7 trillion! NASA's budget of $14B, thus, represented only about 0.8% of total federal expenditures during FY '99. In fact, since 1975 NASA's budget has varied only between 0.7% and 1.0% of total federal expenditures. NASA's highest ever share of total federal expenditures was 5.5%, which occurred in 1966.

Many other interesting comparisons can be made:

Microsoft's corporate revenues in 1998 were roughly the same as NASA's budget that year.

NASA's budget is roughly the same size as the budgets of each of the following states: Alabama, Connecticut, Kentucky, Louisiana, Missouri and Tennessee.

The federal government spends over 30 times as much money on Social Security as it does on NASA.

Americans spent over 19 times as much at restaurants in 1997 as the federal government spent on NASA that year.

NASA's budget represents approximately 0.2% of U.S. Gross Domestic Product

Its not YOUR money, its the governments.

I don't really understand why we must keep on looking for life on other planets...

How can this make our world a better place...or how can another planet contribute to us. Expecially if they are lightyears away from our distant planet.

Almost seems impossible to comprehend the money being spend on trying to find things that are more than likely not even there. The universe is just a work of art, and it seems that people don't want to accept it.

did you even read my post? In 1999 the TOTAL NASA budget was 0.8% of all government spending.

Without space exploration, you wouldn't have mobile phone service on the level we have now, GPS, more accurate weather forcasting, international TV channel signals delivered to your television.

Then, because of the devices used to monitor astronauts in space, there have been improvements on medical monitoring equipment here on earth.

The fact that we >>>may<<< discover intelligent life (or just life) on another planet is a bonus. The real wealth of space exploration would be better manufacturing processes, increase life spans, purer, more refined ore processing, etc, etc, etc.

Then, there is the disticnt possibility that we may find, on other worlds, and abundance of elements that are considered scarce here on old Terra.

But, you seem more concerned with the short term, than the long term chances for our species.

See thats the thing you dont understand. Your talking materialistic things such as cell phone services....go to 3rd world countries and see who all has cell phones...hell seewho all has food day to day...thats what im talking about. Not short term...LONG TERM for our world...we must first work out the kinks on our planet before going out to explore other planets. i'd be happy if all my taxes went to benefiting others and communities.

HAHA....u think its the governments money? Who do you think payed for that money? US.

I guess you haven't heard George W. Bush speech 5 years ago. Where he even mentions "Its your money you all payed for it."

For if there is life....there must be a purpose.

So why would our purpose be to find life on other planets....when we can't even have decent life on our own planet. I would be embarrased to send information to another civilization. If i were the other civilization I wouldn't want anything to do with earth.

but in reality it could be in fact the worst mistake in earths history.

we should be using more money on trying to cure things like AIDS, HIV, WORLD HUNGER, and not our own selfish hunger.

Maybe we could have included a couple more things in Voyager's data set. I was thinking perhaps "Independece day" or "War of the worlds" to provide them with visiting ideas....

Anyways the probe was send originally in wishful thinking terms and not as verification of alien life. I view the voyager module as a mesage in a bottle. Perhaps the only thing that will still be floating about in case we bail out early.

here's REAL proof there is ET's