Space Exploration (My Persuasive Argument)

Space Exploration
(My Argument)

I think that space exploration is extremely important and useful for multiple reasons. Here I’ll be stating all of the reasons why I think its important and giving you my honest opinions and thoughts.

My first reason is that if we don’t find new places to live and areas we could become extinct. Why’s that? And how? (you may ask) well in this world there are currently more than seven billion people that live on planet earth, which is quite a huge amount of people. But however we’re all crammed together on this single, individual planet. If something happened to earth like a meteor came crashing down or a huge asteroid happened, our species could be wiped out and humans could become extinct. Colonising other bodies in the solar system is a way to create “backup” of humanity that will survive no matter what happens to earth. This is just a thought, but maybe in the future humans will never be seen to take a step on planet earth again, perhaps they could be living on another planet, but hopefully they don’t become extinct. Space exploration is helping to address fundamental questions about our place in the universe and the history of our solar system.

My next reason is that space mining could save the world. New technologies are getting built and designed every single day, therefore the strain on our natural resources continue to increase. The extraction of valuable minerals has led to a host of problems, including environmental damage, and human exploitation, but there’s an amount of precious materials that are lying around in space. Startups like planetary resources want to mine asteroids instead of earth, which would mean an effectively unlimited supply of raw materials that are laid upon earth. In theory, hydrogen fuel that's been mined from asteroids costs significantly less than fuel from planet earth! Due to high costs of escaping earth’s gravity.

We also need to continue to explore and discover. It’s very important humans keep doing this or otherwise we are going to be stuck on planet earth until the day we might become extinct. There are more practical reasons for space exploration, but one of the principal reasons we must continue is that we are explorers. That’s why humans number in the billions from our earliest upright steps, we’ve endeavoured to learn more about the world around us, and this is to build civilisation. Exploring space is an opportunity not only to discover new worlds and build advanced technologies, but instead to work towards a larger goal irrespective of nationality, race, or gender. If we discontinue to explore then we may stop being a human race.

Most importantly the human race is increasing more and more by the day. Every day a child enter this world, which means are population goes up. Some countries make that having children is illegal. Our current population is 7.7 billion in August 2019. Our population is increasing 82 million per year! Our population is becoming more huge, and people are becoming homeless. There could be a few reasons for this. One not enough houses are getting built or two, the prices of housing are becoming more expensive for people to buy. We also really just need a backup because one day something terrible could happen to earth and what are we going to do then? Give up and just sit there until death falls upon us? No. We need to continue to explore and Nasa needs to continue to spend money for space exploration. Because population is expanding rapidly in huge numbers. There is hope to find a planet in space that can sustain life to human beings. I believe there are planets out there that include an environment that is safe for us to live on, but it must include the important resources we use on a daily basis like oxygen, water, trees to give us oxygen (plant life), food, shelter etc. As a team humans could build and create a new planet that is suitable for everyone to live on.

Another durable reason I have is space exploration can protect us by a catastrophic asteroid. This could be the cause of a possible chance on how the world might end. An asteroid hits our planet about every 10,000 years or so… shouldn’t we all be prepared? If we don’t want to end up like the dinosaurs someday, we need to start to protect ourselves against the threat of being hit by a big asteroid. According to Nasa, typically about once every 10,000 years, rocky or iron asteroids (which is around about the size of a football field!) could smash into our planet’s surface and possibly cause tidal waves big enough to inundate coastal areas. But we also have something else to fear about... there are asteroids that are about 100 meters (109 yards) across or bigger that we really have to watch out for. Such a collision would unleash a firestorm of heated debris that would fill the atmosphere with sun-blocking dust, which can easily wipe out forests and farm fields and starve the human and animal life that it didn’t immediately kill. All though there is this widely funded space program that enables us to spot a dangerous object long before it strikes earth, and send a spacecraft to plant a detonate nuclear explosion that could nudge it off its collision course.

My very last reason is that space exploration could help solve a really big question. A Lot of people believe that life exists somewhere else in the cosmos, according to a 2013 Huffing ton poll half of the american nation chose to believe it! And a quarter of them think that extraterrestrials already have visited our planet. But so far, sweeps of the sky with Earth-based telescopes for signals that might be beacons from distant civilisations have proven fruitless, possibly because the Earth's atmosphere interferes with such messages reaching us. That's why searchers for extraterrestrial civilisations are eager for the deployment of more orbital observatories such as the James Webb Space Telescope. That satellite, which was expected to launch in 2018, had the ability to search for the chemical signs of life in the atmospheres of distant planets outside our solar system (source: Kramer). That's a start, but an even more aggressive space-based effort to look for clues of extraterrestrials might finally help us to answer the question of whether we have company out there.

To sum everything up, In conclusion, I believe that space exploration is important and needs to continue. I have given decent reasons and explanations on why space exploration is important. I have explained the impact on how it affects our environment, population etc. I’ve also explained how its important we should keep exploring and overall how important space exploration really is. These are my reasons, opinions and thoughts on what I think about it. Overall, I strongly believe that space exploration is important and it should continue!

By Aimee