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If we spent 4% of GDP on a moon landing, we could easily do it again. Or if NASA just had a clear goal to pursue and wasn’t pushed around by Congress all the t
by rqtwteye 2y ago
If we spent 4% of GDP on a moon landing, we could easily do it again. Or if NASA just had a clear goal to pursue and wasn’t pushed around by Congress all the time.
- ForOldHack 2y agoNothing, bar none: No human endeavor has paid itself back, including the computer you are reading this on, more than the American Space Program. Let's push around Congress to get the simple problems fixed so that we can concentrate on the Problems that are hard. "We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too." John F. Kennedy Address at Rice University - Sept. 12, 1962.
- Prbeek 2y agoThat would be more than the annual military budget. Phew!