Why has science failed so miserably?

[meogi]

Space travel I could care less about.

Why, might I ask?

Also, why do you think NASA is funding private contractors to start sending things into orbit? They know it costs too much in its current form. (Which is kinda silly imo, money doesn't 'really' exist. But that's quite off topic.)

I'm not entirely certain you understand how difficult it is to send something into orbit. Just the sheer amount of fuel for:

is staggering.

I realize it may look cluttered, but it's really not; space is pretty freaking huge.

 

[Panda]

Umm sure as hell not NASA. Why do you ask?
As I understand it only until sometime in the early decade of 2000 did NASA have anything to do with GPS.

So I just googled it and DOD is responsible for GPS. Not NASA

Yes and who do you think put them up in orbit?

 

[painted wolf]

Practical Applications of Space Technology: Discoveries and Developments by NASA and Their Benefit to Society

wa:do

 

[LuisDantas]

Horse crap

Who else has the ships? Who pioneered them?

Mind you, I personally believe that having goals of reaching mars or even the moon is a serious form of delusion, particularly given the current economy. But there is no denying that there are serious, realistic uses for space research. GPS among them. The Depart of Defense may have funded GPS technology, but it is only by way of NASA that it put the satellites that it needs into orbit.

 

[PolyHedral]

Who else has the ships? Who pioneered them?

In the words of the esteemed Tom Lehrer, "Who spent $20 trillion of your money putting some clown on the Moon?"

 

[painted wolf]

Some more NASA spending on research
Dollars From Heaven: NASA-funded research small but vital

And a few local contractors that are supported by one of the NASA Glenn Research Center, because not all of the money they spend is on research... but also on building maintanance, furnature, food, and on and on...
NASA Glenn - Local Prime Contractor List

But who needs basic research in science and medicine or local contracting jobs when you can attack NASAs mighty 0.06% of the US budget! What money wasting! Less than one percent is outrageous when all we get is advances in knowledge, medicine and engineering!

wa:do

 

[Skeptisch]

In I book I've just started reading the author states that Newtons laws are unchallengable which evidently isn't the case as they were succesfully challenged by Einstein and those whose work followed Einsteins. Newtons laws are a good approximation for most of what we do but special relatively is needed for more accuracy.

Great post oneatatime.
It maybe worth noting that Einstein added to Newton’s law by imagining how it would work in space, involving bodies moving near the speed of light. We can go further and imagine what these laws would tell us about the behaviour of bodies close or beyond the event horizon of a black hole. A whole new “ballgame” as you know and further proof that science never claims to know the absolute truth but the closest approximation of it at the time.

Newton’s law still works perfectly well in the world of ordinary experience. We could argue whether the laws of physics change or whether they are unchangeable but behave differently in different surroundings. This seems to be a semantic argument.

The intent of the OP is to point out that no matter how much one wishes or prays for something, fulfillment is always accidental. If religious faith is ever right about anything it is right by accident.