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Is NASA a MASA waste of money?

There are two sides to this heated argument!
- Why spend resources leaving earth when there are so many problems ON earth that we could focus those resources on!
- These projects are beneficial to us all and will create a better future!

Personally, I like the idea of companies like Space X and NASA as technology is important, their projects could improve our life, (and space exploration is incredible).

What do you think?
Should we continue to cut funding
or should we INCREASE funding?

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In the US more money is spent on PIZZA (27 Billion) than on NASA
Reply 2
Original post by trendingNOW
There are two sides to this heated argument!
- Why spend resources leaving earth when there are so many problems ON earth that we could focus those resources on!
- These projects are beneficial to us all and will create a better future!

Personally, I like the idea of companies like Space X and NASA as technology is important, their projects could improve our life, (and space exploration is incredible).

What do you think?
Should we continue to cut funding
or should we INCREASE funding?


This argument is invalid because the money that most countries spend on military assets could save the planet too. 824 billion dollars the US spends on military? The world could be fully renewable within months.

NASA should have increased funds, simply because earth will get hit by a flying dildo at some point in the future and humanity needs to be prepared for it.
NASA has 0.8% of US budget,
Is that enough?
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NASA is the one who will save humanity, when we we have to relocate to space due to a nuclear catastrophe.

Defence budgets of all countries should be given to NASA imo, and then there will be no more nuclear too :smile:
Sounds good!
But we do need to defend ourselves in case the flying dilds have weapons!
If the money was spent on renewable energy and repairing the environment,
then we could focus on space exploration!
Instead of preparing to abandon a destroyed planet,
Original post by trendingNOW
There are two sides to this heated argument!
- Why spend resources leaving earth when there are so many problems ON earth that we could focus those resources on!

Science would fall into stagnation if it was only for practical purposes, as Albert Einsteins said. Also, no amount of money can solve other problems, while most of them are an effect of bad management and stupid cultures unable to adapt to environment they live in.

Original post by trendingNOW

What do you think?
Should we continue to cut funding
or should we INCREASE funding?


We should increase the funding and the same time, focus on education
Flat earthers and the belief that Earth is only 3000 years old is a shame of modern society.
The first might not be numerous, though their existence shows that public education isn't working properly.
But over 40% of Americans are so uneducated that they actually believe that Earth is only 3000 years old. It's a complete disaster of public education.
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Reply 8
Original post by trendingNOW
There are two sides to this heated argument!
- Why spend resources leaving earth when there are so many problems ON earth that we could focus those resources on!
- These projects are beneficial to us all and will create a better future!

Personally, I like the idea of companies like Space X and NASA as technology is important, their projects could improve our life, (and space exploration is incredible).

What do you think?
Should we continue to cut funding
or should we INCREASE funding?


The first argument is no argument at all. People study space because they find it fascinating. If they were unable to study space, they wouldn't just choose to study cancer research or whatever. Their heart's not in it.

Also, many of the things we use everyday were made by discoveries from experiments completely unrelated to what they are used for now.

Particle accelerators, originally used (and still used) for particle physics are used in medicine. So are x-rays and NMRI scammers

The universe is more complicated that we think. So many times we discover something we weren't expecting, or find out that what we were expecting can't happen. If we were to base our cancer research without these experiments near the edge of human knowledge, we might be looking for a needle in a haystack, without realising that the needle is in a different haystack.


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Reply 9
If NASA had the same budget as the US military, we would be building a city on Mars within a decade.


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Original post by PTMalewski
But over 40% of Americans are so uneducated that they actually believe that Earth is only 3000 years old. It's a complete disaster of public education.


16.4 million American adults believe chocolate milk comes from brown cows.


We've got a long way to go.
Reply 11
Original post by O.m_ldn
NASA is ridiculous. There are so many actual NEEDS in this country/world and we spend billions of dollars trying to figure out things like why Mars atmosphere changed. I guess for those of you who support this, you want to continue to ruin this planet and move to another to ruin that one...


Read my above posts.

Also, NASA receives about $10 million a year (nowhere near this 'billions' you speak of), while the military receives $1 trillion.

NASA is more important than the military. Would you rather have clever people with no weapons, or stupid people with hydrogen bombs?


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Original post by Kyx
Also, NASA receives about $10 million a year (nowhere near this 'billions' you speak of), while the military receives $1 trillion.


NASA budget 2017: $18bn https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budget_of_NASA
DoD budget 2017: (just under) $600bn
http://www.defensenews.com/articles/us-lawmakers-reach-2017-budget-deal

So way out on the first one and way out on the second. But other than that, pretty accurate...
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Reply 13
Original post by Drewski
NASA budget 2017: $18bn
DoD budget 2017: (just under) $600bn


So way out on the first one and way out on the second. But other than that, pretty accurate...


Glad to see they've increased the NASA budget and decreased the military one :biggrin:


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Original post by Kyx
Glad to see they've increased the NASA budget and decreased the military one :biggrin:


Wrong again, the military budget has increased by $20bn, which is more than the entire budget for NASA.
Reply 15
Original post by Drewski
Wrong again, the military budget has increased by $20bn, which is more than the entire budget for NASA.


**** :frown:


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Original post by Drewski
16.4 million American adults believe chocolate milk comes from brown cows.


We've got a long way to go.


God bless America
It is crazy how much the US spends on the military!
4.5 Billion
a year
just on air-conditioning at their bases.
They need to re-evaluate their spending!
Original post by trendingNOW
It is crazy how much the US spends on the military!
4.5 Billion
a year
just on air-conditioning at their bases.


Given they have 1000+ bases, $4m per base per year isn't actually that unreasonable.

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