Specific Purpose: To persuade the audience to view oceanic exploration as a valuable undertaking. INTRODUCTION I. Opening Statement: Forget about exploring outer space, we should concentrate on something a lot closer that we only know a small fraction about - Earth’s oceans. II. Central Idea: To show the benefits of Government funded exploration and examination of the oceanic environments across the globe. III. Credibility Statement: I have gathered information from various online sources and periodicals to illustrate the importance of our undersea environment. IV. Review: The opportunity and endeavor of exploring the Earth’s oceans can reap great rewards for mankind and unravel many of the mysteries that the Earth has left to discover. [Transition: Let’s start by examining the cost benefits of exploring the ocean instead of outer space] BODY I. Oceanic exploration costs a lot less than exploring outer space. A. You get more bang for the buck! 1. NASA.gov reports the average cost of a space mission is around $450 million. 2. According to Space.com the Federal Government approved a budget of $16.6 billion for NASA in 2014. Approximately 1/3 of that will be spent on space exploration. 3. The US Government Accountability Office and its website GAO.gov shows that NASA also gets funding from the Department of Defense (DOD), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency (NOAA), and US Geologic Survey (USGS) totaling another $19 billion. 4. Figures from 2009 on NOAA.gov show that oceanic exploration receives roughly $4 million in federal funding for the National Undersea Research Program (NURP) through NOAA and has no independent agency tasked with a mission of marine exploration. 5. Wikipedia reports the most sophistic... ... middle of paper ... ... new forms of life on Earth. III. Clincher: Unless we change the way we view our oceans, jellyfish might be the only seafood on the menu in the near future. REFERENCES 1. NASA, 3/15/2014, http://www.nasa.gov/missions/index.html#.UzBntl6ppyQ 2. Space.com - $16.6 Billion NASA Budget Clears House Panel, 3/15/2014, http://www.space.com/21922-nasa-budget-approved-house-panel.html 3. US Government Accountability Office – NASA certification of Funds, 3/16/2014, http://www.gao.gov/products/AFMD-93-30ML 4. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration – NURP, 3/17/2014, http://www.nurp.noaa.gov/Funding.htm 5. Wikipedia – Remotely Operated Underwater Vehicles, 3/17/2014, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remotely_operated_underwater_vehicle 6. TED – David Gallo: Life in the Deep Oceans, 3/24/2014, http://www.ted.com/talks/david_gallo_on_life_in_the_deep_oceans
Website for Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution a non-profit organization dedicated to oceanic research and education.
The government gives NASA $16 billion every year. That is only 7% of the federal government’s budget, which is $2.8 trillion. To put it in perspective, for every $2800 of federal government budget, $16 goes to NASA. With more funding, NASA could launch more telescopes, explore other galaxies, and pinpoint exactly where an asteroid will strike. Citizens of the United States of America believe that a huge percent of their taxes go to NASA. The truth is, only one percent of taxes go to scientific research, and half of that goes to NASA. For someone earning $100,000 a year, $1000 goes to scientific research, with half of that going to NASA, only $500. The benefits of continuing to fund NASA, far outweight the costs. Michael Massimino, one of NASA’s astronauts says it best, “you have bills to pay, but you always want to put something away for your kids college fund. NASA is like a college fund, we are the future” (Massimino 1).
Jeremy Jackson. How we wrecked the ocean.TED.com [Video/Internet]. Emily McManus; May 5, 2010 [cited 2014 Jan 28]. 18 mins. Available from: http://blog.ted.com/2010/05/05/how_we_wrecked/
Wasteful, useless, pointless – and many more colorful words have been used to describe the budget allotted to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration of the United States, NASA. You could almost make 24 stacks of one-dollar bills tall enough to reach space with the $17.5 billion that were budgeted this year alone. It’s a staggering amount at first glance I’ll admit, but there is so much more return in NASA’s work that many fail to see.
The Canadian Criminal Code (1995) stated the main principles of sentencing as “to contribute, along with crime prevention initiatives, to respect for the law and the maintenance of a just, peaceful and safe society by imposing just sanctions” (s. 718). Section 718(a-f) considers the factors sentencing are to denounce unlawful conduct, to deter, to separate, to rehabilitate, to provide reparations and to promote a sense of responsibility.
first of all, in an article called, “Why Exploring the Ocean is Mankind’s Next Giant Leap” by Philippe Cousteau it explains two going down to the deepest part of the ocean, the Mariana Trench, but this is largely forgotten today. In this article it also explains how unbelievable it is that people are focusing on space travel but we don’t know
understanding of how the oceans work. The hope is that as a result, we will
Such as poverty and health-care, but in fact NASA 's funding is only a half a cent on the dollar, and the U.S. spends most of its deficit on war and other barbaric acts. About 2.9 trillion dollars are used on health-care alone (Millman). The U.S. government spends a mere $17.7 billion on NASA and spends more than 36 times that on defense $647 billion, with nearly $20 billion alone in 2011 spent on air conditioning tents. Since NASA’s Cold War glory days, the budget has gone from 4.41% of the total budget in 1966, to less than 0.45% today, its lowest ever. NASA helped to usher in a promising new future in the 1960s and it was rewarded with a rapidly-eroding budget. The U.S. should invest more money in NASA and less on unnecessary health care and military. The budget cuts are affecting our technology development. Evidently, Increasing NASA 's to 1 percent of the federal budget will not hurt the economy. But instead it would benefit it by creating jobs here on earth, especially for the next generation of American scientists and engineers. By increasing funds it would support cutting edge aeronautics and space technology innovations, education, and development that will help fuel the nation 's economy for years to
Within the Australian justice system, the most severe and utilized form of punishment sanctioned to criminal offenders is imprisonment (Brown 2012, p. 484). Admittedly, whilst this method of punishment incapacitates criminal offenders from society, various bodies of research critique whether incarceration truly reduces the overall rate of crime (Hayes and Prenzler 2015, p. 309; Goulding 2007). Despite this concern, preceding decades has seen established criminal justice divisions in Australia amplify their punitive stance on crime via escalating the length and rate of penal incarceration. Within this time frame however, various forms of justice procedures have emerged that have sought to alter existing justice procedures by tackling the problem
As a nation, I think we should invest more on exploration of the ocean, because scientist has invested a lot on exploring space. Scientists have satellite in space to monitor telephone, detect missiles from other country. We don’t have people traveling in space
Shaikh, Thair. "Marine Life Facing Mass Extinction, Report Says." CNN. Cable News Network, 13 July 2012. Web. 10 Nov. 2013. .
The most common misconception people have is that NASA doesn’t really do anything for us anymore. Completely to the contrary; NASA is like a plant. Just like a plant takes in CO2 then puts out life giving oxygen as a byproduct, so does NASA take in existing “primitive” technology and world issues and put out life saving applications as a by-product. If anyone has been alive anytime after 1958 you have benefited from at least 30 of NASA’s 30,000 different applications. They’ve created fire-fighting gear, laser heart surgery, and weather satellites that prevent the deaths of thousands because of forewarned hurricanes.
Think about NASA and all it's done for the better of humanity. Without it being funded, there is hardly anything to fuel any future interest in the space program nor would our world learn anymore about itself. NASA needs this funding to stay alive, to answer the world’s questions, and show everyone how it important it is to keep NASA
the history of our mission to conquer the underwater world.” Geographical Aug. 2005:54+. Student Edition. 3 Nov. 2009 .
The ocean can serve man purposes things for many different people; as a school, a home, a park...