Sunday, March 14, 2010
Against Team Frednet project
Team freadnet supported by Google has the ambitious project of sending a robot to the moon, which will go 500 ft and will take some pictures. In order to do that, this project is going to be open-project, so anyone interested could participate. This project promise to be expensive, but Google is offering 20 millions to the winner that can get the job done. Is this not absurd???!!!! Send a robot to the moon just to take pictures is pointless and has no sense at all. Is not this project a waste of money and energy?? Do not get this wrong, I encourage investigation, team work and in general I am a supporter that all that has to do with science, but in this case, I completely disagree with the project. I could make a long list of all the things that would be better off with all that money, energy and talent that the participants in this project would spend. For instance they could invest on bio-engineering, find way to reduce pollution or protect the wild life that is in risk to disappeared, or what about find ways to eradicate poverty. What about bring technology to people that has no access to it, or more support on research for illness such as cancer and SIDA. As I said before, I could keep giving examples of better projects that would be really helpful to people from all countries. So if you are thinking on support this project, I will not say that you should not do it, but think it twice please.
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From the team:
ReplyDelete“Our long-term ambition is to create an Open Space Foundation. That Foundation will be able to spin off some of these technologies we develop and use those to create more opportunities for space exploration. Besides that, I hope that we can unify people in our common goal. We are embarking on a form of truly Creative Capitalism, showing that the talents of individual’s and the efforts of individuals can have an incredible impact on achieving something truly remarkable. I also believe that this effort, space exploration, is our best and finest hope for improving our lives here on Earth. This is a new generation and a new millennium – ask not what your planet can do for you, ask what you can do for your planet.”
Interesting argument.