Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Topic Proposal

Topic Proposal
I want to write on if its worth investing money into space research or projects for spare ships or basically anything related to NASA's goals. I believe that there is some controversy on whether it's a good idea or not to spend millions of dollars to put into NASA's projects rather than take care of the many problems that the USA are facing right now, but there are resources in space that are in abundance that could be useful as well. I am a little familiar with space related stuff, and what good can come from investments into NASA's prjects. But i know we have some other things like curing diabetes and cancer research that could use more investments. I know that there are some precious metals contained in asteroids floating around in space and it is possible to mine from them, but there are other important things out in space too, and i need to research to figure some of the many other good reasons to continue the funding. The people who would care would be the U,S, citizens, things could be getting cured or we could be in less of a recession if we wouldnt dump money into NASA and their objectyives. Its an issue right now, we are cutting back on governement spending, and to quit funding NASA may be a good way of doing that. I could go either way on this topic, either way I would enjoy doing this topic and selecting one of the two standpoints to argue from.

3 comments:

  1. This sounds interesting, I had never entertained that thought before - "is it better to spend money in space, or on earth?" You will need to narrow yourself down to a specific research question to direct your paper though, so you may want to think of one specific question you want to answer for yourself.

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  2. Very interesting topic! I recently visited the Museum of Flight in Seattle and found that space was very intriguing to me. Prior to my visit, never gave it a thought. Now I would love to go back there and spend a whole day learning about all the different NASA flights and what their missions were. Are you thinking about focusing on the medical benefits? Tons of information out there. If you haven't visited the museum, I would suggest this as an awesome starting point (if it's possible in any way for you to make it there)! I would love to see where you go with this! Best of luck!

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  3. This sounds really good. You seem very determined, and I think that you will do very well in your paper. Good Luck and I hope you find all the information you need to succeed :)

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