Often times we humans love living our lives by exploring our imagination and seeking after our dreams. We spend time an irredeemable of time on research, and an uncountable amount of money experimenting in the wonders beyond our earth’s orbit. But why do we have to go through such ordeal? Searching for traces of life outside of our magnificent earth when just below our oceans is an entire world that we haven’t explored? Why do we go looking for heaven when heaven’s already right here on earth?
Everyday Americans rely on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association (NOAA) scientology, services and stewardship to keep their families safe, their communities thriving, and their businesses strong. From the basics of knowing today’s temperature to up to a week’s weather forecast is essential to businesses and everyone alike. The NOAA studies aren’t limited to the weather forecast but they monitor sea levels, they minimise loss of life and property caused by erosion, they give advice on coastal flooding and storms. They study also the effects humans and weather changes have on marine biology and the climate amounts others. The NOAA mission is to provide science-based solutions through collaborative partnerships to address evolving economic, environmental, and social pressures on our oceans and coasts. (NOAA, Jan 2014) With that being said, why is it that we need to elucidate on the importance of this organisation under the department of commerce? Why is it so difficult for the US Congress to increase the NOAA’s funding?
In 2012, The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) proposed to Congress an amount of $18.7 billion that would fund its space shuttle, International Space Station (ISS) programs, scientific research and...
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...If Congress still isn’t convinced that the NOAA deserves additional funding to conduct marine and oceanology research, then we would assume that doing it for the security of the nation would be enough reasoning, right? From larger funding, we will see an enhancement in the tools and services that address the threats to our country’s coastal areas, such as climate change, population growth, port congestion and containments in the environment. All of these will proclaim healthy coasts and healthy economies.
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http://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/exploration.html
NASA Funding The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) was booming in the late 1960s because the U.S. invested over 4.5 percent of the Federal Budget (Bolden). Unfortunately, in the recent years, the Government has slashed funding for many of NASA’s projects in an attempt to cut back on the deficit and boost the economy. Despite the plummet in NASA's budget, the program has proved that it's prominence in the U.S., space programs like NASA continue to face difficulty in increasing its funds. Although, NASA leads evidently, the government doesn’t think NASA is worth more than 0.47 percent of the federal budget.
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Creating and managing agency budgets is a complicated process. How an agency receives and allocates its funds determines how, when, and if the agency will remain viable and how it will achieve its mission. “As a practical matter, therefore, agencies often base their annual budget request on last year’s budget after making incremental categorical changes of previous expenditures” (Stojkovic, Kalinich, & Klofas, 2012, p. 40). Organizations, however, are affected by the political climate around them. The September 11, 2001 attack on America brought a substantive reaction, including military deployment abroad and increased surveillance within the homeland. As a result, the Department of Homeland Security was created to control and coordinate a number of federal law enforcement and
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The NDAA budget exceeds the $619 billion budget presented by Congress with a total $700 billion need for things such as new navy ships, fighter jets, and an increased pay for current military officers (Source 2). The budget set by NDAA also exceeds the 2011 Budget Control Act. This is problematic as since most of the budget money were to be going towards other aspects besides climate change, coastal military bases would receive not nearly as much as they need to fully protect themselves against the risks of climate change consequences. In addition to budget problems, the NDAA is nothing radical or new. There are several acts that have been issued with the same outline as NDAA, or some even go into more detail about climate change and the preparation for such consequences, as NDAA does not order that bases must create a plan to deal with these effects of climate change.
Bill Nye, the “Science Guy,” asserts, “NASA is an engine of innovation and inspiration as well as the world's premier space exploration agency, and we are well served by politicians working to keep it that way, instead of turning it into a mere jobs program, or worse, cutting its budget.” The United States of America’s government is currently in an economic debt encompassing billions of US dollars. Unfortunately, the government has attempted to balance finances by cutting the funding for most programs, including NASA, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. NASA, in over half a century, has brought the most economic, technological, and social benefits than any other program held here in the USA, as well as any other extraterrestrial program in the world. The last thing this nation needs is the cutting of NASA finances. NASA should be receiving more funding because the Earth will not last forever and humans will need a place to live, there’s a curiosity within humans about the vast universe they live in, there is evidence to suggest life on other planets, the USA’s superpower status will be improved, and the economical income NASA brings is more efficient than any other governmental or educational program.
I will be presenting the first affirmative of today’s debate. The United Stated federal government should substantially increase its non-military exploration and/or development of the Earth’s oceans. Before I go further I would like to define the key terms of today’s debate. The United States federal government is defined as the system of government in the Constitution which is based on the separation of powers among three branches: the executive, the legislative and the judicial. The ocean is defined as the whole body of salt water that covers nearly three fourths of the surface of the earth. To increase means to become larger in amount or number. Nonmilitary means not belonging to, characteristic of, or involving the armed forces. Exploration
The National Academies Press (2012) NASA’s Strategic Direction and Need for a National Consensus retrieved from http//www.npa.edu/openbook.php?record_id=18248&
NASA is constantly over budget and behind schedule. So how badly is NASA being run? A U.S. Government report states that more than 50% of NASA’s programs over-budget and past-deadline; and some of the others having no deadline at all. The Government Accountability Office looked at 18 separate NASA programs, finding that 5 are running without any deadline at all! In total, there are only 3 that have made their deadline, all of which are over budget. The Mars Science Laboratory is running 25 months behind schedule and 26% over original cost estimates, and the Glory climate satellite is an incredible 53% over budget! (nasa). This constant over-budgeting by NASA results in higher taxes on the American people.
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.
...; quest for new frontiers continues today as earthlings burst terrestrial bonds and begin the endless voyage beyond planet and galaxy into the illimitable dark.
The universe, and what it means to be alive is almost impossible to define; yet that does not stop humanity from trying. “Lonergan’s philosophy of the human person reveals that being human means having an unlimited number and variety of questions about life and the universe.” (Morgan, 1996). There is no limit on the number and variety of questions the human person will ask, "the most subversive people are those who ask questions” (Gaarder), as a result there are many varied and opinionated answers. This essay will explore three different theories on how one might find answers to life's ultimate questions. At one point or another, every human being has asked the question why: Why am I here? What is my purpose? What is the point? It is in our nature as human beings to reason, to think, to ask, it is what separates us from the rest of creation, and with this ability to reason, we are left with one question: Why? Throughout history many have tried to answer this question, some have come to the conclusion that meaning is found through God, and one’s faith. Others feel that life begins meaningless, and it is up to the individual to give life meaning; then there are those who believe that life has no meaning, and we are all essentially, just waiting to die, "The meaning of life is that it ends." (Kafka).
Outer space has always intrigued the human mind. Ever since humans inhabited the Earth, they have always looked to the heavens. Ptolemy, who lived over two thousand years ago, dreamed of being with the stars. He said, “I know that I am mortal by nature, and ephemeral; but when I trace at my pleasure the windings to and fro of the heavenly bodies I no longer touch the earth with my feet: I stand in the presence of Zeus himself and take my fill of ambrosia” (Tyson). At that time, reaching the “final frontier” was not even remotely possible.
Curiosity and exploration are hardwired into our basic human nature. We strive to understand and explore the environment around us. From individuals climbing Mt. Everest, to those journeying deep into the Amazon Rainforest, it is our innate desire to discover and be adventurous. It is natural that this desire would eventually turn to areas beyond our planet. In the late 1950’s the escalation of the Cold War led to the space race. It started with the launch of the satellite Sputnik I by Russia, and produced amazing feats such as the United States putting a man on the moon. During the height of the space race, NASA was receiving 4.31 % of the national budget (Office of Management and Budget), and it took only eight years for NASA to reach the
Most people think that the costly downside to funding space exploration is a reason to avoid spending money on sciences and instead spend it on problems here on earth, but such funding for space exploration actually promotes economical as well as scientific benefits. Space exploration is an important expenditure for the high cost because of the potential for numerous benefits such as the possibility to find useful resources to cultivate, space exploration and satellites produce many thousands of jobs in our economy, and it creates and discovers newer and better technologies through research and development.