Both of the reading and lecture deal with the validity of space exploaration. While the reading disagree with exceling in space exploaration as for the matter of risks, impracticality, and astronomical amount of money the lecturer supports it. There are several reasons.
Firstly, lecturer casts doubts on the idea to halt space exploaration for the risk of it. The reading passage argues over centuries, as people explored the space they should bear every physical risk and still that is conspicuous regardless of advanced technology and more effort on today. However, lecturer feels suspicious as for matter of halting the entire process of space exploaration for them. Professor stresses her opinion that risks occur daily even in home and space exploaration can bring benefits for the mankind: unlocking the origin of the human, advancing more techniques and science for people's life.
Secondly, reading shows that space exploaration is unproductive to bring practical achievement as for the matter of not enough breakthrough in the past and massiveness of the universe. However, the lecturer points out that space exploaration has brought indirect accompliashment: communication, forecasting and the matter of electronic which opposes the reading.
Lastly, Professor feels skeptical on the idea rather spending the budget of space exploaration to solve
the global problem is more practical. The reading pasage describes that the fraction of budget for space exploaration can solve the global problem. However, the professor feels dubious on this matter for the contracdict result with reading. According to the united states federal government, only one percent of its budget is spent for space exploaration. Thus feeling doubtful to ameliorate global matter with the supplement of the budet used on space exploaration. |