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Other than the fact that there are multiple countries that have space programs. > A “puny” $22.6bn buys a lot of food and houses a lot of homeless people. Thi
by actuator 6y ago
Other than the fact that there are multiple countries that have space programs.
> A “puny” $22.6bn buys a lot of food and houses a lot of homeless people.
This is reductive line of thinking. You can't equate spending on cutting edge research with taking away from welfare. Earth has finite resources and you need to be forward looking as well while taking care of the present.
Also, it is not like all the research benefits just space exploration or MIC. For instance, research into hydroponics is being used on earth now to grow food with much less resources.
- KDJohnBrown 6y agoWhen 99% of the realized benefits are financial windfalls to arms manufacturers, is that 1% really so special? Americans happily spend excessively on war without blinking yet any suggestion that we devote resources to the welfare of our fellow human being is written off as “godless communism”. We are in the middle of the worst homelesseness, unemployment and food instability since the great depression. Why is that not of greater importance? A significant percentage of HN are randian free market fetishists. I say if space exploration has value then let the capitalists fund it, not the taxpayers.