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Nice website, note by the same source that the US military budget is about $1t per year ($886 billion). Even more insane. https://www.thebalance.com/u-s-milita
by darkmighty 9y ago
Nice website, note by the same source that the US military budget is about $1t per year ($886 billion). Even more insane.
https://www.thebalance.com/u-s-military-budget-components-challenges-growth-3306320 https://www.thebalance.com/u-s-military-budget-components-ch...
For a fraction of that I'm pretty sure we could be well under way of self-sustaining colonization of other Solar System bodies.
- tibyat 9y agowhat’s insane is that you just rounded off an amount roughly equal to the combined budget of: - department of energy ($24B) - department of education ($45B) - department of transportation ($73B) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_federal_executive_departments https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_federal_execut...