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>only if we pretend there's infinite money available. If we cut out bank bailouts (wasted money) and 95% of the defence/wars budget (wasted money) we could inc
by crdoconnor 12y ago
>only if we pretend there's infinite money available.
If we cut out bank bailouts (wasted money) and 95% of the defence/wars budget (wasted money) we could increase the NASA budget probably at least 100x.
The money's there, it's just being squandered.
- SilasX 12y agoAnd if those savings were spent on probes instead of human space travel, the scientific output would still be 100x as much per dollar invested. Having extra resources doesn't eliminate opportunity costs. Edit: found an xkcd for it: http://xkcd.com/871/ http://xkcd.com/871/