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"...maintaining it all costs upwards of $50 million per year" It's really dumb that we're going to sit in ignorance of SO MUCH STUFF because someone in the gov
by sageabilly 11y ago
"...maintaining it all costs upwards of $50 million per year"
It's really dumb that we're going to sit in ignorance of SO MUCH STUFF because someone in the government somewhere is getting into a tiff over this tiny, tiny drop in the government budget. For some perspective, apparently the US Gov spends about $1.7 Billion annually maintaining empty or abandoned federal buildings/land [1]
[1] http://www.npr.org/2014/03/12/287349831/governments-empty-buildings-are-costing-taxpayers-billions http://www.npr.org/2014/03/12/287349831/governments-empty-bu...
- ekianjo 11y ago> about $1.7 Billion annually maintaining empty or abandoned federal building and a lot more on killing people overseas.
- knieveltech 11y agoWell, they weren't gonna kill themselves... Edit: Seriously? Y'all downvote the parent and upvote this blatantly inflammatory nonsense? Clearly I have no idea what motivates people.
- MrZongle2 11y agoHumor is rarely permitted on HN, for fear that it would suddenly turn the site into Reddit. Somehow.
- NegativeK 11y agoEach of those buildings costs less than $50M per year to maintain. I, personally, am absolutely for giving NASA a lot more money -- even if it's $50M for plutonium production. But the "it's a drop in the bucket" argument isn't really a viable argument when national budgets are just heaps of drops in a really big bucket.