Do We Really Need Space Exploration?

Space exploration started back in 1957, when the Russian satellite Sputnik was launched to space. Since then, many countries have been sending representatives to space – even Israel had sent the late Ilan Ramon to space in 2003, but that ended tragically when the shuttle crashed near Texas in a horrible accident. A lot of money and resources are spent on space exploration, and many people think it isn't worth it, but also, the thrill of discovery and big curiosity leads people to think space exploration is actually an excellent idea.
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One opinion is that space exploration is just needless nowadays. A reasonable explanation to that might be the fact that an enormous amount of money is spent on these flights to space. Many people think that "the purpose doesn't justify the means", and that instead of researching our galaxy, we should spend this money on defeating and overthrowing eminent problems like poverty, terror and pollution.

Others believe that space exploration is needed. Many people think that since Earth's condition is getting worse each and every year, we should find another planet to live on – instead of these "aimless actions" of fixing ours, and they think that justifies the money. Another assumption is that the wonderful experience of discovering new things about our endless universe worths(gr. - is worth) the money, and some people also think that a discovery that will prove we're not alone in this universe could be fascinating.
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In conclusion, space exploration, like any other task, has many opinions(phr. - space exploration cannot "have" an opinion), pros and cons. And now, I can finally answer the question that I asked in the first place – do we really need space exploration? My answer is that currently, it is needless. We have enough problems here on our little planet, and I think we should fix them before we start creating problems in the unknown reality out there.

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Peer pressure is one of the worst social experiences in life. The problem is people actually give in to peer pressure, mostly because they want to seem cool and beloved. That is one of the many problems of peer pressure – it makes you forget your ethics and values, just to be accepted.

Personally, I think peer pressure is a bad phenomenon. It makes gentle and naïve children, teenagers and adults become people with wrong habits and principles, and that happens only because they want to be liked. Some people are asked to do horrible things that can badly affect them. If they don't do these things that they're asked to do, they are banished and considered "not cool". My advice to those people is to find new friends, because if their current friends abandon them just because they want to be good and not mess with bad activities, they are simply not friends. Plus, I do not believe in the phrase of "good peer pressure". In my opinion, there is no good peer pressure, because a person needs to judge everything by himself and by his principles, and not fall for brainwash and peer pressure even if the cause is good.

To conclude, peer pressure is surely a bad phenomenon and I think it should be overthrown from our world, because at the end, it only causes problems to everyone involved. Everybody should just do what their heart tells them to do and listen to no one - but themselves...

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