Should Government Spend As Much Money As Possible Exploring Outer Space?

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The word «Space adventure» has captured a large number of people’s heart. A lot of people have been attracted by the unknown world and have desired to live in the space at some future time. Writers all over the world devoted their books to flies to far away stars. But travelling outer space cost a lot of money. And as we know from economics money always have an opportunity cost. In other words, money spent on some venture could be used for financing some other alternative venture. Some people believe that money spent on space research benefits all of humanity. Other people believe that there are better opportunities for spending this amount of money. Let us get down to the arguments first before we take a side. The first group of people claims that space researchers are helping all of human society. It increase our knowledge and understanding about the space and universe as a whole. These people hope to spend more money on researchers, visit all the planets, and built space colonies. Nowadays, a lot of developed countries have their interests in travelling to the moon. For example, Japan has plans for a lunar village; Chinese are building robots to explore the lunar surface. Also Russian scientists plan to build a base there. In contrary, another group of people, think that space exploration is nothing more than a waste of money. At that time when millions of people does not have any access to food. education and health care its incorrect to spend billons of money exploring outer space. Humanity should solve problems right here on Earth first. As for myself, I can’t afford neither one side of the point nor another. I think that two mentioned points of view are both important (for the humanity). Governments should care for their people and also do the space research. In order to make exploring outer space more effective governments have to unite and help

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