Humanities
"Should NASA be a government-funded agency?"
At my exhibition, I presented my visual art piece and open letter directed to the Curiosity Rover in the future when it eventually malfunctions and does wake up, much like the how Opportunity did on the 10th of June, 2018. My experience presenting it was very much dull as only maybe 6 people actually noticed it was there, maybe 4 actually read it. But when people did read it I was asked a lot of very interesting questions, many of which I didn’t have an exact answer for. So all in all I feel like I had a very nice exhibition. Now that I have done my research on both sides of this topic I would say I have redone my thoughts on the issue to better reflect the fact that space travel is dangerous and expensive and that to most of us, billions of dollars are a lot but in the grand foresight of just how much money the USA can make then it better puts that into perspective with it. What I have learned about democracy as of this project’s completion is that democracy is an experiment and like any experiment repeatability and precision is key. This is a must have in a democracy, we have to be careful with it because the slightest tilt will definitely destroy the greatness we have achieved. My political views remain skewed. Rogerian rhetoric and a willingness to be disturbed i feel is a useful tool in a democracy but not necessary
When I was 11, my mom went on a business trip far far away from me. I was distraught, and I never wanted her to leave until she told me one thing to make me feel like the distance was closer than it was, she told me, “Look up into the sky at night landy, and you see the big bright moon? Well every night you are looking at that moon I’ll be looking at the very same one.” And over the course of the weeks she was gone, I did look at the moon, and looking at that moon made me realize things about it. What are all those dots? Why are those dots there? What are the different colors of the grey mean? Why is it even there?!
Being a child of the 21st century, and a lover of both books and knowledge in general, I looked all of this up. I found out that guys,GUYS, the moon is a whole 238,900 miles away! That's like driving from San Diego California to Portland Maine 77 times! That journey would take around 5 whole-ass months. Apollo 11 though? The guys who went there, landed on it, did some nerdy stuff for a few hours then come back? They did that in 76 hours. TOTAL. Thats with an hour on the moon. I thoroughly fell for space when I was 15 when I got my first real telescope. It was an 8in Dobsonian mounted Reflector. And it's a strange feeling when you are up at 3am, looking at the rings of Saturn while you sit in PJs on the deck. It's like the perspective of being human and mortal on earth with taxes, school, and all that other junk goes away for a while.
My topic for this project was whether or not space exploration should be a government funded program or not. Giving that space is my absolute favorite thing, it's a heartfelt issue, and if you're asking if i got very upset when I read people’s essays on how it's useless then yes yes i did. My point being that really, the problems solved in space are the SAME ONES as the problems on earth! You need the best minds, no matter race, sex, sexual orientation, or ANYTHING. Have you ever tried advanced calculus? Not. Fun. Andany proposal beyond giving NASA the necessary money to finish their projects will result in chaos, and an earth shattering event for me.
Yeah I don’t agree with NASA’s practices in the literal 1960’s but so far they have advanced the most comparatively to say the military, which gets 20% of the GDP, whereas NASA only gets 0.4% and solves easily HALF of our problems we face not only as a nation but as the human race. It's a unifying flag to fly under the last beacon of hope we’ll have on a dying planet.
To say its usless is sorry for my french but a really big and really fucking stuipid thing to say. And to say we should leave it to private corporations that are trying to reach margins and make profites is, excuse the french, a really big and really fucking dumb thing to say. People who say that need to first pull there very small minded heads out of the sand and then out of there asses and see that they are possibly the worst people I know. Absolute worst. You can argue to a Republican or Democrat all day with at least a small amount of hope that they'll loosen up to your ideas a bit but these people who think space exploration is a waste, to quote Faris Buller’s Day Off, are so up tight you could shove a lump of coal up there ass and out will pop a diamond. Yes i feel strongly about this. And yes, I’m right. Its not a matter of opinion but a matter of im not dumb and yeah these people are up there on the “DUHHHHHH” scale.
Being a child of the 21st century, and a lover of both books and knowledge in general, I looked all of this up. I found out that guys,GUYS, the moon is a whole 238,900 miles away! That's like driving from San Diego California to Portland Maine 77 times! That journey would take around 5 whole-ass months. Apollo 11 though? The guys who went there, landed on it, did some nerdy stuff for a few hours then come back? They did that in 76 hours. TOTAL. Thats with an hour on the moon. I thoroughly fell for space when I was 15 when I got my first real telescope. It was an 8in Dobsonian mounted Reflector. And it's a strange feeling when you are up at 3am, looking at the rings of Saturn while you sit in PJs on the deck. It's like the perspective of being human and mortal on earth with taxes, school, and all that other junk goes away for a while.
My topic for this project was whether or not space exploration should be a government funded program or not. Giving that space is my absolute favorite thing, it's a heartfelt issue, and if you're asking if i got very upset when I read people’s essays on how it's useless then yes yes i did. My point being that really, the problems solved in space are the SAME ONES as the problems on earth! You need the best minds, no matter race, sex, sexual orientation, or ANYTHING. Have you ever tried advanced calculus? Not. Fun. Andany proposal beyond giving NASA the necessary money to finish their projects will result in chaos, and an earth shattering event for me.
Yeah I don’t agree with NASA’s practices in the literal 1960’s but so far they have advanced the most comparatively to say the military, which gets 20% of the GDP, whereas NASA only gets 0.4% and solves easily HALF of our problems we face not only as a nation but as the human race. It's a unifying flag to fly under the last beacon of hope we’ll have on a dying planet.
To say its usless is sorry for my french but a really big and really fucking stuipid thing to say. And to say we should leave it to private corporations that are trying to reach margins and make profites is, excuse the french, a really big and really fucking dumb thing to say. People who say that need to first pull there very small minded heads out of the sand and then out of there asses and see that they are possibly the worst people I know. Absolute worst. You can argue to a Republican or Democrat all day with at least a small amount of hope that they'll loosen up to your ideas a bit but these people who think space exploration is a waste, to quote Faris Buller’s Day Off, are so up tight you could shove a lump of coal up there ass and out will pop a diamond. Yes i feel strongly about this. And yes, I’m right. Its not a matter of opinion but a matter of im not dumb and yeah these people are up there on the “DUHHHHHH” scale.
"Dear Curiosity Rover,
I’d like to start this letter off by addressing the elephant in the room. I’m sorry.
It comes with human experience that you will soon know the meaning of the word disappointment. I’m afraid that our 2011 promise to bring you back to Earth with a manned mission will have to be cancelled for the foreseeable future.
The American public has spoken, and they find our efforts in space have no effect on the ground. Regardless if we, N.A.S.A, invent the way we filter our water, or the formula we feed babies, or the CAT scans we give cancer patients, or the LEDs we invented to counteract wasteful incandescent bulbs, or the artificial limbs we give to our wounded soldiers. Not to mention cameras small enough for a phone, glasses that don’t scratch, ways to remove landmines that we spot from almost thirteen thousand miles above Earth.
I’m sorry that they think we can send a man to the planet you call home even though we get less than one-half of a percent of the government’s budget. It’s getting better though, with the rise of Space-X and Blue Origin we can leave it to the money-loving, American-dream-living, totally-not-greedy international corporations. I’m sure they won’t only look for return on investments and just deliver the ultra wealthy to space hotels and super fast forms of public transport.
I’m afraid that the American public cannot see the forest of how space exploration is the next step for humanity through the trees of how space has given us so much more than rockets and cool photos. They only see what they need to buy into the false narrative that “We need to stop trying to solve problems up there when we have so many down here!” even though in all my years of being a director to the National Aeronautical and Space Administration not one problem we have solved for “up there” hasn’t affected the “down here”
Not one of them sees the absolute truth that these are the same problems, each and every one of them. Not a Republican or a Democrat or a Liberal or a Conservitive seems to know because they seem to see us as something to do when all our problems are solved even though it’s in the nature of humans to create more problems once the rest are done, progress is always a constant and problems solved are always pieces of progress because no it’s not a destination but a journey. How does space exploration fit into this? Well you may be 250 million miles away and running a CPU from 2001, but even you can imagine that problems solved only reveal the ones we didn’t see at first, and space exploration is the only way to solve these things all at the same time is through us. No force unifies like the huge common goal like putting a man on the moon by the end of the decade or throwing ourselves at Mars. We need the best minds to help us with the math and to write down what we see, regardless of who they are. Many people don’t know but at the end of world war 2 there was a covert operation called Operation Paperclip where we saw the upcoming space race with the soviets, so, we effectively hired the german scientists that we found along the way.
The same ones that developed the weapons of war used to kill our allies, friends, and family. In my eyes it wasn’t until we had the courage to go to the moon when we had the courage to forgive them, and it wasn’t until those in all senses of the word “Nazis” embarked with us on the journey there and back again, that they had the change of heart.
No sooner until we can except that this should be at top priority then we can continue with our mission.
This will be the end of further transmissions. Thank you for your service.
Signing off, N.A.S.A"
I’d like to start this letter off by addressing the elephant in the room. I’m sorry.
It comes with human experience that you will soon know the meaning of the word disappointment. I’m afraid that our 2011 promise to bring you back to Earth with a manned mission will have to be cancelled for the foreseeable future.
The American public has spoken, and they find our efforts in space have no effect on the ground. Regardless if we, N.A.S.A, invent the way we filter our water, or the formula we feed babies, or the CAT scans we give cancer patients, or the LEDs we invented to counteract wasteful incandescent bulbs, or the artificial limbs we give to our wounded soldiers. Not to mention cameras small enough for a phone, glasses that don’t scratch, ways to remove landmines that we spot from almost thirteen thousand miles above Earth.
I’m sorry that they think we can send a man to the planet you call home even though we get less than one-half of a percent of the government’s budget. It’s getting better though, with the rise of Space-X and Blue Origin we can leave it to the money-loving, American-dream-living, totally-not-greedy international corporations. I’m sure they won’t only look for return on investments and just deliver the ultra wealthy to space hotels and super fast forms of public transport.
I’m afraid that the American public cannot see the forest of how space exploration is the next step for humanity through the trees of how space has given us so much more than rockets and cool photos. They only see what they need to buy into the false narrative that “We need to stop trying to solve problems up there when we have so many down here!” even though in all my years of being a director to the National Aeronautical and Space Administration not one problem we have solved for “up there” hasn’t affected the “down here”
Not one of them sees the absolute truth that these are the same problems, each and every one of them. Not a Republican or a Democrat or a Liberal or a Conservitive seems to know because they seem to see us as something to do when all our problems are solved even though it’s in the nature of humans to create more problems once the rest are done, progress is always a constant and problems solved are always pieces of progress because no it’s not a destination but a journey. How does space exploration fit into this? Well you may be 250 million miles away and running a CPU from 2001, but even you can imagine that problems solved only reveal the ones we didn’t see at first, and space exploration is the only way to solve these things all at the same time is through us. No force unifies like the huge common goal like putting a man on the moon by the end of the decade or throwing ourselves at Mars. We need the best minds to help us with the math and to write down what we see, regardless of who they are. Many people don’t know but at the end of world war 2 there was a covert operation called Operation Paperclip where we saw the upcoming space race with the soviets, so, we effectively hired the german scientists that we found along the way.
The same ones that developed the weapons of war used to kill our allies, friends, and family. In my eyes it wasn’t until we had the courage to go to the moon when we had the courage to forgive them, and it wasn’t until those in all senses of the word “Nazis” embarked with us on the journey there and back again, that they had the change of heart.
No sooner until we can except that this should be at top priority then we can continue with our mission.
This will be the end of further transmissions. Thank you for your service.
Signing off, N.A.S.A"
My Philosophy
This project was built around what our personal philosophy was and how we beleive to precieve the world around us, how one should act and what gives humans morality and such. I took mine to mean what I want people to feel all the time and I think it best to describe as a term called a "vibe" - my generation probably didn't coin it first but we more than likely popularized it to mean, "Do yourself and be yourself, whatever that may be." I wanted to try and capture that in a video format on my spring break trip to Tampa Bay.
Some new insights about my life which kind of hit home are that I don't need the things I thought I needed to be happy. I was raised to be only successful and not happy which I realized hopefully not too late. I discovered this throught the story of Chris McCandless, and how he left to discover himself and left all worldly posesions and was happy about it. I'm not that far, but I find myself realizing I don't need everyone to be my friend, I don't need all the money on earth, I don't actually need those things but they're options. I discovered that no one ever has life figured out, and that porpuse is a constantly ever changing thing.
Some new insights about my life which kind of hit home are that I don't need the things I thought I needed to be happy. I was raised to be only successful and not happy which I realized hopefully not too late. I discovered this throught the story of Chris McCandless, and how he left to discover himself and left all worldly posesions and was happy about it. I'm not that far, but I find myself realizing I don't need everyone to be my friend, I don't need all the money on earth, I don't actually need those things but they're options. I discovered that no one ever has life figured out, and that porpuse is a constantly ever changing thing.
Eating an Agricultural Act? The Ethics of Food and Eating
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