Why has small town America turned away from science and space exploration?

[JakeWIlls92]

America was considerably more religious in the 1960s and that America put human beings on the Moon. Nowadays people in rural America listen to preachers who say aliens don't exist.

Why has conservative America turned away from science? From space exploration? The future?

 

[JustAGuy1]

So.................one "Pastor" is an indictment of all?

 

[occupied]

The future is filled with terror for those who lack courage and imagination. What do you mean about aliens? While extraterrestrial life almost certainly exists there is yet to be any evidence of intelligent life elsewhere in the universe.

 

[JackOfNoTrades]

America was considerably more religious in the 1960s and that America put human beings on the Moon. Nowadays people in rural America listen to preachers who say aliens don't exist.

Why has conservative America turned away from science? From space exploration? The future?

Watch the first 45 minutes of the movie "Interstellar". Perfect parallel.
Today's conservative reminds me of a perfect post-truth lemming.

And...I don't know if aliens exist...but I hope if they do, they don't probe me.

 

[fncceo]

Aliens, if they do exist, won't be coming here anytime soon. There is nothing about the Earth, perched as it is on an outer spiral arm of our galaxy, that would be of the slightest interest in a civilization capable of Interstellar travel. There is nothing in science that says alien life form can't exist, or has to exist. It's pure speculation.

Space exploration, on the other hand, is dead for any foreseeable future. Begun as a very expensive Cold War stunt, the cost alone prohibits any serious exploration of space. We simply don't possess the technology for cost-effective space exploration.

Even our most cost-effective launch vehicle (Falcon Heavy) promises (still unproven) a cost per KG to LEO (the wading pool of space) of $1100 . One thousand one-hundred dollars for every bottle of water. $230,000 for a single astronaut in his space suit.

Now, take that same launch vehicle and shoot it to Mars -- the price per KG of that bottle of water 'skyrockets' to $4,177. The cost of a single astronaut by our cheapest launch vehicle towards Mars (one direction only), nearly 1 MILLION dollars.

 

[Grumblenuts]

"#NASA SAYS LIFE CAN EXIST ON MARS."

"Life" encompasses far more than human life and NASA's never said that humans can exist on mars without lots of artificial support, just as they currently "exist" on the Int'l Space Station.

 

[Jitss617]

America was considerably more religious in the 1960s and that America put human beings on the Moon. Nowadays people in rural America listen to preachers who say aliens don't exist.

Why has conservative America turned away from science? From space exploration? The future?

The south is where the farms are .. that’s god and science.. they are the best at both

 

[Unkotare]

America was considerably more religious in the 1960s and that America put human beings on the Moon. Nowadays people in rural America listen to preachers who say aliens don't exist.

Why has conservative America turned away from science? From space exploration? The future?
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Where is the "science" part in childish nitwits fantasizing about space aliens? Imagining E.T. is out there waiting to call you has nothing to do with space exploration or 'the future.'

 

[Unkotare]

America was considerably more religious in the 1960s and that America put human beings on the Moon. Nowadays people in rural America listen to preachers who say aliens don't exist.

Why has conservative America turned away from science? From space exploration? The future?

The south is where the farms are .. that’s god and science.. they are the best at both

There are lots of farms in the North and the South.

 

[Jitss617]

America was considerably more religious in the 1960s and that America put human beings on the Moon. Nowadays people in rural America listen to preachers who say aliens don't exist.

Why has conservative America turned away from science? From space exploration? The future?

The south is where the farms are .. that’s god and science.. they are the best at both

There are lots of farms in the North and the South.

What’s your point

 

[Grumblenuts]

 

[whitehall]

Small town America? Thanks to the (mostly) democrat education policies in the last fifty years, all kids are proficient in is applying a condom on a cucumber.

 

[my2¢]

There is much science yet to discover and it needn't all come about through space exploration. My feeling is the James Webb Space Telescope will provide enough to satisfy my curiosity about our universe. Our scientific endeavors should be diverse with its budget split to include the study of medicine, oceanography, weather, and the environment.