I'd throw stupid money at NASA any day, just maybe not so much for manned exploration until it's cost-effective. We both want more space probes I suspect. But

I'd throw stupid money at NASA any day, just maybe not so much for manned exploration until it's cost-effective. We both want more space probes I suspect. But from the above articles, I see two trends. From (1) Nonmilitary science funding has been effectively flat for a decade while military research was increasing annually roughly until a year or so into the Obama administration. From (2) and its responses, the money itself is being misallocated to the top (just like everywhere else) and also into a metastasizing tumor of administrators: http://www.bloomberg.com/bw/articles/2012-11-21/the-troubling-dean-to-professor-ratio http://www.bloomberg.com/bw/articles/2012-11-21/the-troublin... And then there are articles like this: https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/economy/report/2014/03/25/86369/erosion-of-funding-for-the-national-institutes-of-health-threatens-u-s-leadership-in-biomedical-research/ https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/economy/report/2014/... http://dellweb.bfa.nsf.gov/nsffundhist_files/frame.htm http://dellweb.bfa.nsf.gov/nsffundhist_files/frame.htm which imply the NSF is relatively OK but that the NIH is increasingly underfunded relative to GDP, no? It's not like we've cracked mortality, figured out our own minds, or even cured a whole bunch of nasty diseases yet.