PBA- Performance Based Assesment (Argumentative) by Eriberto Torres https://padlet.com/300040198/Bookmarks en-us 2022-03-07 20:23:37 UTC 2025-10-29 20:42:15 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f4b5.png Introduction 300040198 https://padlet.com/300040198/Bookmarks/wish/2082514089 Should we spend valuable resources on space exploration? We should not use valuable resources for space exploration because it would affect astronauts’ brains and health by being in a spaceship for a long period of time. It could also cause a shortage of valuable resources that we could use to build dams, homes, and farms to use for our everyday life. It would also cost, “ For NASA astronauts, McAlister says, orbital trips can have a $58 million price tag” (www.usatoday.com). It also costs a lot of human labor, metal shortage, and more money to also fund missions to space by the U.S government. It also uses valuable time and mental health issues during the missions outside the protection of Earth’s atmosphere.
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Should we spend valuable resources on space exploration?]]> 2022-03-07 20:37:37 UTC https://padlet.com/300040198/Bookmarks/wish/2082514089 Thesis Statement 300040198 https://padlet.com/300040198/Bookmarks/wish/2082529033 Should we spend valuable resources on space exploration?
We shouldn't use valuable resources for space exploration because the resources we have are limited for us. We can have problems with those resources that are either going to then start to have a shortage on it. We also shouldn't use valuable resources because we could use those resources for different things such as better products for technology, protection for homes, and education but not for space exploration but for other subjects for school.]]> 2022-03-07 20:48:33 UTC https://padlet.com/300040198/Bookmarks/wish/2082529033 Topic 1/ Reason 1 300040198 https://padlet.com/300040198/Bookmarks/wish/2082538430  One reason for not using valuable resources for space exploration because it can lead to brain issues and it can lead to memory loss because of the cosmic rays. That means that some scientific research with mice to test to see what would happen if the cosmic rays to their brains to see if the same effects can happen to humans.]]> 2022-03-07 20:55:51 UTC https://padlet.com/300040198/Bookmarks/wish/2082538430 Topic 2/Reason 2 300040198 https://padlet.com/300040198/Bookmarks/wish/2082545931 If we do use valuable resources we can lose items that could be used to improve the world even though it could expand knowledge throughout the world. We could use those resources for more homes, hospitals, schools, and maybe a raise fund for teachers and other first responders. We could also use it to protect the forests and to also build more parks and mueseums. ]]> 2022-03-07 21:01:34 UTC https://padlet.com/300040198/Bookmarks/wish/2082545931 Topic 3/Reason 3 300040198 https://padlet.com/300040198/Bookmarks/wish/2084808251  Another reason we should not use valuable resources for space exploration because valuable resources also cost millions if not billions of American dollars to use and use valuable time and a lot of human labor to add all the extra protection and extra weight to a spaceship. As well because the resources we have we should use them wisely because once we run out of a specific resource, it's gone. So the more we save our resources we can use them for stuff that will improve the community and add stronger protection against things in the future that we should be aware of. There are resources we use daily that can be replaced, such as wood, energy, light, fire, water, and etc. Resources we can't replace are such as, metal, coal, iron, gold, diamond, steel, oil, gasoline oil, space for land, specific animals, and certain designs that helped the world. So this reason also supports how we shouldn't use valuable resources for space exploration. It also supports how we can and can't replace certain resources and how to use those resources wisely.]]> 2022-03-08 20:32:43 UTC https://padlet.com/300040198/Bookmarks/wish/2084808251 Topic 4/Reason 4 300040198 https://padlet.com/300040198/Bookmarks/wish/2084819470 "Space agencies involved in human space flight are located in the US (NASA), Russia, The European Union (ESA), China, Canada, Japan and India. The US, Russia and China are the only countries to have independently put people in space. India and Japan state that they have the intention of doing this in the coming decades. European and Canadian astronauts fly with NASA, and the Russian Space Agency and are involved in the International Space Station.

You can see the NASA budget over the last 40 or so years here. In 2005 NASA had a budget of $16.2 billion; this includes not only the human spaceflight division, but also other engineering projects, and science funded by NASA. The total federal spending budget in 2005 was on the order of $2 trillion ($2000 billion), making the NASA share 0.8% of the budget. By comparison roughly 19% of the budget was spent on the Military, 21% on Social Security and 8% went to paying interest on the national debt.

The ESA budget for 2005 was 2.98 billion euros (about 3.5 billion dollars), but many European countries also have their own space agencies which are independently funded, so it's not strictly a fair comparison.

ESA and NASA are by far the highest funded agencies. The Russian space agency has an annual budget of $800-900 million dollars (and it's about the same for India), Japan ~1.8 billion, China ~1.2 billion." (http://curious.astro.cornell.edu/about-us/150-people-in-astronomy/space-exploration-and-astronauts/general-questions/921-how-much-money-is-spent-on-space-exploration-intermediate).
This supports on how so much money is used by some countries to fund for space exploration, those funds can be used to pay for ending world hunger, highways, homes, schools, churches, hospitals, and more. This article shows how much that can affect the community and how we chould use that money for important things happening in everyday lives. This supports on how "Should we spend valuable resources on space exploration?".


]]> 2022-03-08 20:40:50 UTC https://padlet.com/300040198/Bookmarks/wish/2084819470 Counter Claim 300040198 https://padlet.com/300040198/Bookmarks/wish/2084836142 My counter claim is how space exploration can lead to dangerous outcomes for astronauts such as memeroy loss, headaches, strange behaviors out of the protection of the Earth's atmosphere. ]]> 2022-03-08 20:52:45 UTC https://padlet.com/300040198/Bookmarks/wish/2084836142