While it is true that Earth has benefitted from past space exploration, it remains very important for the leaders of America to weigh the pros and cons of further exploration. They must take into consideration today’s economy and the fact that many people are much more concerned about their jobs here on Earth, rather than worrying about exploring other planets. American exploration of Mars began in the late 1990s, and since that time, the United States has sent eight different vehicles to the Red Planet (Kluger 24). All of this exploration has been very expensive for the American taxpayers. Recently, the idea of privatizing the business of sending cargo and astronauts into low-earth orbit has become a reality.
With technology that runs the life’s of millions, and the constant need to obtain anything and everything without a price, Lao-Tzu would hang his head in shock at the life we have grown so quick to know. There are places in the government and in the life of today that Lao-Tzu would think inadequate for living; however, we must look at what in our life meets his guidelines as well. Modern American society is not perfect. The ways of the world have changed since 6th century BC and life has become much more complicated all the while striving to make things simpler. The way technology has driven the last half of a century has changed life astronomically.
He was truly a genius with all the machines he built that were way before his time. I never would of thought that architects would have as many rivals as he did but when your as good as he was a lot of people would be jealous. One thing that amazed me was how long all the models and pieces of the dome took to build. Also since they didn’t have planes of course to ship the materials they needed it took forever and shipping materials overseas was dangerous back then too for example when they had to get the marble shipped over. I couldn’t imagine devoting most of my life to building a dome.
BTEC Level 3 Electrical/Electronic Engineering P1: Health and safety plays a major role in our society, from the littlest to the biggest objects in life that we use daily, but people fail to realise the importance of such an act and the impact it brings to our world. This causes useless catastrophes from just one little mistake which occurred countless times in the past and still in our present time, due to lack of responsibility in such a serious job. In many job roles such as working as a tube driver, the employer holds a huge responsibility over the hundreds of people riding the train, but like all jobs the employees have to be trained before hand to understand how the regulations work and about the code of conduct; dressing up appropriately towards the job like
He has a lot of help and many years to come up with this technology. Pushing his ideas to the extreme, he made employees work long hours and on a “need to know basis”. If Jobs never pushed though, the world could be a very different place than what it is now. Fred Vogelstein goes into how risky it was for Apple to “show off” the Iphone for the first time. “Not only was he introducing a new kind of phone-something Apple has never made before- he was doing so with a prototype that barely worked.” (2).
Each accomplishment recognized represented an upgrade in score for those who were keeping tabs (everyone really). Yet even though the outcome was favorable for a certain organization in points the real “winner” was determined by the transporting a human to the moon, first. The beginning was marked on October 4, 1957 when the Soviet Union (USSR) launched a satellite into orbit (The USA hadn’t done anything close to this at this point) around the Earth. Sputnick 1 (as it was named) was then followed by Sputnick 2 making an even bigger impact on the USSR’s standing considering it now became the first satellite to carry life (a dog named Lika) from Earth to space. And, in an attempt to catch up (as they probably
Scientists have been creating numerous inventions for human in order to make our lives easier and quicker, within all the inventions, a good amount of them have actually caused millions of deaths and injuries; making people starting to rethink whether scientists are responsible for what they have/are going to invent regarding the consequences the inventions may lead to. In the book Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut, this question has became to the most controversial topic among readers. The answer for the question should be a solid “no” due to the following reasons. Firstly, the intension of scientists while they were creating a new invention was definitely not to cause any harm but to make the world a better place for us human beings; second of
The United States tried to out-do Soviet Union’s space missions by landing the very first man on the moon. As a result, NASA came up with the infamous Apollo 1 mission. Many Americans favored the mission, but there were ones who politically disagree with it. The Apollo mission was launched in 1969, carrying 2 man including Neil Armstrong onto the moon. This successful mission led Americans to believe that they won the unofficial race, but the Soviets differ by claiming that launching the first man to space makes them the victors.
If unemployed want extra money, they get a side job in addition to receiving welfare. Although there are people who desperately want a job, many others are fine living the way they are. This will become the life style and status quo for a lot unemployed people. But I do agree that we don’t just compete against the people around us for a job. Now, because of the development and advancement in technology, people from other countries apply for jobs in America.
This, however, is a slippery slope because automation does not necessarily cause job loss. One must take a deeper look at how robots impact the industry. First of all, as mentioned before, companies who automate create direct and indirect jobs by doing so. It is true that robots could take low skilled factory jobs; however, the number of unemployed workers has stayed the same or even decreased throughout the years. Our society today is very technologically advanced and not utilizing those technologies will only put us at a disadvantage.