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"you're aware that NASA has made massive contributions in those fields, right?"

So does anything, what you would have to justify is that money spent on space travel produces more advancement per dollar than investing in those sciences directly.

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"Cavemen didn't spend their time on space because they didn't know they could go there."

We never knew that we could, that didn't stop us from wasting our money on it. I'm sure there was some caveman who tried to get up in space, I'll bet he probably feel out of a tree and died.

4/17/2010 7:55:38 PM

Drastically trim NASA. Drastically trim everything. About 50% layoffs in every federal agency sounds about right, military especially. Each agency can choose who goes. Fair?

4/17/2010 10:11:08 PM

^ Impractical, and blindly ideological.

4/17/2010 10:18:06 PM

the thing about NASA is that when you think about it, all of the money spent is eventually circulated back into the economy, giving many high tech businesses and employees a boost. Think of it as an economic stimulus plan.

4/18/2010 11:54:15 AM

more like a broken window
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_broken_window

4/18/2010 12:05:25 PM

looks like obama loves him some scram jets. x37b articles all over the place suddenly. the far left will find a way to remove this program from existence i'm sure. since all other countries don't have one, we don't deserve one either.

4/23/2010 1:39:44 PM