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Felix Baumgartner: Mars is a waste of your tax dollars
- donebizkit 14y agoIf we follow your logic, Felix, we would've not built that capsule you jumped from, or those cameras that followed you, or that control station that monitored you or nothing as a matter of fact. And how is your jump teaching anything about earth? you made your jump. It was fun. Now let science do her work.
- laacz 14y agoWell, a man, who jumped from ish kilometers in a space suit and tried to justify his jump and money spent with some highly debatable potential uses of saving our astronauts is saying what? Is he an expert of any kind now? I'm stunned this is on HN. Also, link to original article (interview): http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/space/9636188/Fearless-Felix-Baumgartner-Mars-is-a-waste-of-money.html http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/space/9636188/Fearless-Fe...
- lifeguard 14y agoCompared to the $750,000,000,000+ the US dept of defense spent creating over 1,000,000 Iraqi civilian deaths and injuries, tax money is well spent on NASA and should be increased.