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titanicboi1 OP t1_iy69u2q wrote

Reply to comment by Runnin4Scissors in annoying ass hell by titanicboi1

No, but they wanna defund find NASA to do it

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Icy-Conclusion-3500 t1_iy6n1wf wrote

It’s people that see big numbers for NASA projects but have absolutely no idea the scale of the federal budget

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Callec254 t1_iy7xyeh wrote

This. The government spends 18 billion dollars a day. That's not an exaggeration I pulled out of thin air, that is the real number. Spending a billion dollars to send a rover to Mars or whatever really is just a drop in the bucket. And I mean, come on, who doesn't love rooting for those plucky little probes?

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Icy-Conclusion-3500 t1_iy817fr wrote

It’s also pretty rich that people are getting so uppity on this now, when the US recently passed the largest climate spending package in world history.

Sure we need to do more, but like, c’mon now.

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VerinwolfTheThird t1_iy6b47k wrote

What about defunding the US military by like 10-15% and earmarking it for NASA or rolling NASA into the Space Force so they can get more funding through the bloated military budgets?

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