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.
I truly am at a loss, you just don’t get it..
When a ship is sinking all who can must bail.
Continued spending unchecked no matter how noble the cause will not only sink the ship of state, but it will lead to tyranny.. Already that foul creature skulks about our nation.
I am not saying eliminate NASA I am saying sit down with the Defense Science Committee and hammer out some mutual objectives that both provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare. Then set about improving the economy and lives of everyday Americans..
Now it is not just NASA, the DOD has been the second most wasteful spender in the Nation (social services is first I believe)..
Like spoiled little boys the Flag Officers only want the newest gizmo out there. It does not matter if they have a perfectly serviceable platform.. (Such as M113s APCs and the M60, M48 series Tank Platforms) Even though the Israelis after sleight modifications use them successfully everyday against a similar foe and threats. That is just not good enough..
NASA’s budget alone is not the point.
People can see it in your response.. No offer to compromise.. no willingness to accept that some level of serious cuts and redirection makes sense in these troubled times.
If we cannot get such a reasonable consession from a NASA Supporter in a discussion forum... How will we ever make progress in actual discussions of budget and priorities..
If people like yourself are unmoved by reasonable arguments.
We won’t make progress. We will only be pulled along kicking and screaming while the nation falls into bankruptcy and Tyranny takes hold.
W