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[NEWS] nasa eyes urstar fish for missions in 2030s
Drydess:
--- Quote from: Red Spy on June 18, 2017, 06:08:46 PM ---we spend as much if not more on social security can we ditch that too
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no because social security is frankly more important
SeventhSandwich:
--- Quote from: Red Spy on June 18, 2017, 06:08:46 PM ---we spend as much if not more on social security can we ditch that too
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but it's overwhelmingly more popular and successful.
Military spending is obviously important, but I think most people would agree it's grown to a degree that's no longer justifiable.
beachbum111111:
--- Quote from: SeventhSandwich on June 18, 2017, 05:14:58 PM ---It's a double-edged sword. Military spending does produce spin-off technologies in the same way that NASA does. It's just that nothing really gets the jingoistic fever of an overweight congressman going more than a nice missile or aircraft carrier. Same can't be said about better space tech :(
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See if we were allowed to militarize space tech this wouldn't be a problem. But no cold war era laws get in the way of that. I hope your looking forward too never seeing us colonize another planet
Nonnel:
--- Quote from: Drydess on June 18, 2017, 06:07:49 PM --- the thing about this is that the branch of the air force that actually launches and builds for nasa is extremely underbudgeted (or rather mismanaged), so that wouldn't particularly help
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reallocate money to fund NASA and NASA-supporting entities, then, honky
--- Quote from: Red Spy on June 18, 2017, 06:08:46 PM ---we spend as much if not more on social security can we ditch that too
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I don't see how there's even a problem with social security. Everyone gets out what they pay in, so shouldn't it be fine? Is the gov taking money out to use on other stuff and not being able to put it back?
Drydess:
--- Quote from: beachbum111111 on June 18, 2017, 06:12:33 PM ---See if we were allowed to militarize space tech this wouldn't be a problem. But no cold war era laws get in the way of that. I hope your looking forward too never seeing us colonize another planet
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man if we could militarize space tech and someone decided it would be a good idea to shoot someone else's satellite, there'd be a metric assload of debris in orbit of us