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I understand your point, and in real life as a working commuter feel exactly the same. If the world where to end tomorrow, I would be upset that I cared so much

I understand your point, and in real life as a working commuter feel exactly the same. If the world where to end tomorrow, I would be upset that I cared so much about space research and less about for example infrastructure or access to water at that specific moment in time. However without using hyperbole, I can say as fact that "rock analyses and probe pictures" = GPS. Weather tracking/extrapolation. Satellite comm standards. Titanium alloying. Water Filtration. Vaccum efficient powerplants. subterranean imaging. 100 percent recyclables. Outer Space Treaty (1967.) FIber Optics. Solar Power. I could go on and on, but, it is 100 percent true to say that we would not have the life we have today where it not for NASA. We are extremely lucky that the power structures going back in history have had a scientific sexual organ measuring contest, because it for better or worse resulted in all those things at minimum.

palmotea 1y ago
> I can say as fact that "rock analyses and probe pictures" = GPS. No, sorry. NASA does some stuff that has valuable and practical Earth applications, but it's false to equate that stuff with ""rock analyses and probe pictures:" the former can be done without the latter. > I could go on and on, but, it is 100 percent true to say that we would not have the life we have today where it not for NASA. That may be true, but it's a long time since NASA space-exploration tech has had a large amount of impact on Earth-bound technology.