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Just to further this point: NASA receives for its yearly budget 12 days of the military's budget, not counting expenses in the wars.
by DerpDerpDerp 13y ago
Just to further this point: NASA receives for its yearly budget 12 days of the military's budget, not counting expenses in the wars.
- grannyg00se 13y ago12 days of the budget for the entire us military sounds like a pretty damn good amount of money. Quick lookup indicates that's something like 21 billion dollars.
- bad_user 13y agoThe real question is, what makes the military 30 times more important than space exploration, given that we are leaving days of (relative) peace?
- mynameishere 13y agoAt this point, the military is (in-part) a jobs program, both blue collar and white.
- DerpDerpDerp 13y agoMuch of the jobs money is coming out of the war money, which is not included in that figure.
- salient 13y agoSurely we can create a better jobs program with that money?
- whatusername 13y agoIt's a much larger jobs program