Governments collect the money that we earn with our time and effort, spend on researching outside earth, the universe. Most universe researchers will agree that concerning about the matter of “outside” of the earth is more important than “inside”. Some may even say that without knowing about universe, there is no way we can know about our earth. However, I oppose with the researcher’s point of view. What I mean is earthly matters are more important than outer space matter. Thus, governments should fund more on the exploration on earthly matter.
To start with, exploring outer space doesn’t let people feel secured, instead making people even feel panic and helpless. This is evidenced by the article about Meteorites Collision that earth is going to collide with big meteorites and it will cause 100 time serious damage than the Hiroshima nuclear bomb had on entire Japan. Also, we often see the article about Planet Explosion that our earth is going to burst affected by huge explosion. To illustrate this point, scientists predicted that due to the excessive use of natural resources and tainted environments, our earth is going to collapse in 2012. On top of that, there is a movie called “2012” predicting earth collapse by showing miserable consequences it will bring in every detail. However, those predictions never happened, instead it only made people got afraid of dying.
Likewise, researching about universe and announcing unfortunate news does not make people secured and happy, but just make people feel they are too weak and small to prevent earth collapse.
Also, knowledge from the research of outer space is useless since we cannot apply in our common life. For example, human sent expensive exploring robot to Mars, Venus, Mercury and moon to discover what they are made of and how they are formed. As a result, we concluded from our research that Mars is made of iron, it has strong magnetic force and it has no atmosphere. Also, it is announced that Venus is made of coal and Mars is made of this and that. But, did the discovery made any changes in our life? Did it solve unemployment and help those homeless people? The answer is no.
To sum up, I disagree that government should put more importance on outer space matter than earthly matter. This is because outside matter only makes us worried and helpless. Furthermore, it is useless since those researches cannot help us with living. On the whole, universe is future but earth is our reality. Government should turn down-to-earth and face our reality directly.