The Money Spending on Spece Exploration Can Be Used to Better Other Areas.
With the advancement of space research at staggering rate, accompanied by spending numerous amount of money. Indeed, it has directly changed our world. Space probe are all well and good, nevertheless, in my view, not when they come at the expending of the present. Provided that this money can be sound applied in other area, like education, health and poverty alleviation, it will create better effect to mankind.
It is believed that space exploration (e.g. NASA has launched satellites for weather and climate, humans have stepped onto the moon) has brought some benefits to humans. Truly, it renders human more chances to realize the space out of our planet, which has completed the dream of our ancestor. On the other hand, although billions of dollars were invested in this subject every year, the outcomes are limited.
However, once this money can be well used to help human lives in other areas such as education, health and poverty alleviation, it will create more benefits to humans. As can be known, schools built in some remote countryside areas, which do not have sample education facilities, some of them even do not have safe class room. This, in turn, has a detrimental impact on students who acquire knowledge from schools. The main factor of this is due to lack of funding, if there is enough money being invested in here, which can be utilized to build some new schools and purchase useful books, all the students from these areas will profit from these. Similarly, this money can establish better healthcare system, as well as supporting the study of cancer. Therefore, people’ healthy level can be enhanced. Besides, some people, in particular, in Africa, suffering from terrible poverty. As we can seen from the press everyday, they do not have house to keep warm, even die of hunger. This situation can be accessible to improve, as long as acquiring sample financial grant.
To conclude, we can not ignore the benefit which we gain from the space probe, but in my opinion, the authorities would be well advised to give priority to practical life, like education, health and poverty alleviation in our society.
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I just spent two minutes to find some vague figures... not easy with Chinese government liking to keep secrets, but just to give some perspective of costs -
"The first phase {of China's Lunar Exploration project] planned to spend approx. US$170 million to orbit a satellite around the Moon before 2007."
"...of 98 agencies to release their 2010 budgets for official banquets, overseas travel and the cost of government vehicles.... The Ministry of Science and Technology was the only agency to meet the deadline, and 14 departments still have not released their budgets... Chinese Academy of Sciences spent $15.4 million on banquets alone."
There is always money that could be better spent...
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