Cousteau
Nice Quote..
Their Lives... Their Health, Their Reputation and
THEIR FORTUNES
Not others. Certainly not monies taken by Governments in the form of Taxation by the threat or fear of force or violence.
No one says the American People at least people like myself are unwilling to help and assist in bigger projects than we can take on as individuals or have expertise in. Those that agree with my point are simply asking that those on the Government dole related to scientific inquiry make a legitimate and substantial effort to reduce expenditures and increase the immediate value of their efforts in what ever field.
If and when we have our national debt paid and our economy is back on it's feet I think we will all support more esoteric endeavors..
Better an austere budget than no budget in the future at all.
W
your obsessed with cost of NASA!!?
a half a penny on the dollar?
When it assures our place in the future as a nation, perhaps even as a species!
The cost of not properly funding such things is far greater, far greater sir, far greater.
Again, you need to widen your vision, or remain in that closed room.
Fortunes are not always defined by dollar signs.
The fortune of our nation to have say in the course of human history is immeasurable in monetary value.
This finanacial crisis will end sooner or later, but if we stop exploring, were over. history proves this again and again. The nations that expand, explore, innovate and push back the unknown in all ways will endure.
Those that don’t?
Fade away.