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I do accept that pure science is worthy a percentage of the budget, but NASA science is particularly inefficient. That is, at the current amount of money that
by jessriedel 10y ago
I do accept that pure science is worthy a percentage of the budget, but NASA science is particularly inefficient. That is, at the current amount of money that NASA spends, we would get more science for less money if we did more science on Earth.
- Retric 10y agoSome of this is diminishing returns and NASA takes a small chunk of science funding. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_policy_of_the_United_States#/media/File:U.S._research_funding.png https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_policy_of_the_United_S... But, overall I agree and suspect NASA's budget has more to do with Science Fiction than utility.