Space Exploration. Why??

[zraver]

That cannot be done and shall never be done. If the humanity can live in stars after 200 years in the future, why can't the human simply locate Kabba with the given technological advancements?

Imagine that Pakistan ha sa research station on Europa. The Europan west at prayer time is facing 145 degrees off Terra's rotation at the same time, add to that is the fact that Jupiter is between Europa and Jupiter and the earth are also on opposite sides of the Sun.

You can pray to the west, or towards the general direction of Kabba if your handy dandy prayer-finder computer program can locate it but you can't do both. Seems easier to simply mine Meccan sands and send them out into space to create a Kabba counsulate so to speak.

Also can you use long term preservation of Hala foods?

 

[niaz]

It seems that religion creeps into all the discussions. I don't want to worry as to how will I pray if I relocate to Io or Europa !!, we won't be there for another century at least and who knows how ' Ijtehad' will solve this problem.


The topic was why indulge is space explorations at all??

My point was that humanity will sooner or later need room to expand and we need Space exploration for the survival of the species. Would appreciate if Hon Forum members can elucidate the pro and cons of space travel. I for one would like to hear other's ideas regarding the benefits of sapce travel.

 

[EagleEyes]

The possibilities of humans living on another planet currently is extremely limited in my opinion. Just last night, i was watching this movie called Children of Men, which showed that in 2027 (although i thought it was abit of un-realistic and it was only a story) people were not able to produce children due to possibilities of nuclear fallout, pollution, global warming, extreme wireless technologies and other technologies which will in the end will interfere with the basic nature of the earth hence the results coming up quite abnormal. Its an interesting movie and i suggest people watching it.