I was reading about the plan of NASA making a proposal for a manned mission to Mars no later than the year 2019. The rocket ships that will be used is a nuclear electric propulsion instead of a chemical or nuclear propulsion because nuclear fission that is used with 200 megawatts of electrical power seems to be most practical. NASA’s plan is to boost their annual budget of $19.1 billion to $23.8 billion a year from 2010 to 2025 in order to put man on the moon expediently by the year 2017, and on to Mars by 2019. The key questions that are being asked is how to land safely on Mars, how to ascend safely from Mars (back to Earth), and how to get funding.
Funding in the world has become a virtually difficult element to acquire based on the infrastructure of how the system operates. Depending on how much funds that is possessed for personal or business endeavors will be the foundation of the integrity of how opportunities are proliferated within one’s world and reality. We see here that NASA possesses hefty amounts of funds, but still not a sufficient enough amount to cover a seamless trip. This goes to show that re-evaluating our current monetary system, and making steps to change our income strategies in this world would inevitably change the way NASA and any other business (or personal) endeavors) would operate within this monetary industry.
Presently, money is the director of our integrity as how humanity operates in the world — which means that money is given more value than ourselves — as how we operate and interact with each other. If this wasn’t the case, such a billion dollar industry like NASA wouldn’t need to come up with the necessary funding to have/create a seamless trip to Mars. The question is also posed is, what would be the necessity to travel to Mars? Science in this world is similar to spirituality in many ways. Wikipedia defines spirituality as an ‘inner path’ enabling a person to discover the essence of his or her being; or [determining/realizing/understanding] the ‘deepest values’ and meanings by which people live. Virtually all scientific industry’s fundamental objective is to ascertain and dis-cover the relationships of/with existence that inter-relates with the integrity of who we are and how we are created and function — as human beings. It is a ‘quest’ to acquire more knowledge and information about ourselves essentially, wherein billions of dollars are spent on research in various fields in order for us to ‘grow’ and ‘expand’ as a collective entity. But are we actually ‘growing’ and ‘expanding’ if billions of people in the world are suffering financially and physically in the midst of billion-dollar industries?
If you look at the world today (as of 2/27/2012), 884 million people lack access to clean water — which is almost three times the United States population. In a single day, 200 million work-hours are consumed by women collecting water for their families. This is equivalent to building 28 empire state buildings each day. Almost two in every three people who need safe drinking water survive on less than $2 a day and one in three on less than $1 a day. Thus, this goes to show the gap that exists between the rich and the poor, and the significance that it is to consider the question of the reason/necessity to travel to Mars. Doesn’t our fundamental responsibility as man — to assist and support each individual to have an effective and dignified life in this world, have more bearing/significance than attempting to discover attributes from extra-terrestrial phenomena?
What would we actually do with these discoveries but to store it as extra knowledge and information in our minds — having no bearing as a support in practical undertakings in establishing a world that is best for all? Thus, the solution is a viable consideration in the renovation of the current monetary system to a point that financial concerns are no longer a factor/obligation of decision-making and proposals, but becomes a point that is removed from our existence and replaced with financial equilibrium.
Resources:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spirituality
http://water.org/water-crisis/water-facts/women/
http://www.more4kids.info/347/toddlers-and-water/
http://www.nasa.gov/pdf/382362main_40%20-%2020090801.1.mars2019.pdf
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