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If the government truly wants to cut costs let’s discuss this line item: NASA
Posted on 2/26/25 at 10:26 pm
Posted on 2/26/25 at 10:26 pm
Space exploration…. 100’s of Billions of dollars spent on a freaking moon base? Travel to Mars?!?!? Huge waste of tax payer dollars… We cannot afford such ventures with the deficit being what it is… Looking at you Huntsville… self serving interest Elon… those in control simply do not care about your welfare, only lining their pockets via federal corporate handouts that will have no return..
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Posted on 2/26/25 at 10:31 pm to Luke
Far more grift and waste in the military budget than NASA
Posted on 2/26/25 at 10:32 pm to Chad504boy
Most would say roads, bridges, water, sewer, electrical grid and other public infrastructure here in the US is much more so…
Posted on 2/26/25 at 10:33 pm to Luke
.48% of the budget
Posted on 2/26/25 at 10:34 pm to Luke
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Most would say roads, bridges, water, sewer, electrical grid and other public infrastructure here in the US is much more so
Sure. But the need to protect, guard, and weaponize space over the century is probably going to be the fastest growing business in the world.
Posted on 2/26/25 at 10:38 pm to Luke
If we can harvest the minerals on asteroids / other planets, the potential for humanity is endless. Space is very important. Its also important for national defense, preventing asteroid collisions, and in the event the DNC is ever successful in starting a nuclear war with Russia I would prefer if humanity did not die out
Posted on 2/26/25 at 10:39 pm to Chad504boy
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Space is important.
Don’t they claim we know more about space than our own planet/oceans?
Posted on 2/26/25 at 10:39 pm to Chad504boy
Correct. The moon and mars(except for Elon) is a psyop. It’s about controlling the outer edges.
Posted on 2/26/25 at 10:39 pm to GeauxBurrow312
It will never happen… too costly and unrealistic
Posted on 2/26/25 at 10:40 pm to Luke
Shut your fricking whore mouth! If it wasn't for NASA, we wouldn't have TANG! This country wouldn't be the same if we'd grown up without it!
Posted on 2/26/25 at 10:41 pm to Chad504boy
Private sector is always vastly more efficient than the government doing anything. We learn this over and over and over.
But yall still want to give the government 100’s of billions to do something that a private entity like SpaceX or a competitor can do in a fraction of the time with a fraction of the budget to no coat to the taxpayer?
But yall still want to give the government 100’s of billions to do something that a private entity like SpaceX or a competitor can do in a fraction of the time with a fraction of the budget to no coat to the taxpayer?
Posted on 2/26/25 at 10:42 pm to dnm3305
The grift is real… plenty of elected officials getting greased to vote in favor of this
Posted on 2/26/25 at 10:42 pm to Luke
Thats been said about every major innovation. Technology is advancing at an incredible rate, its hard to imagine where we will be a decade from now from just AI taking off
Have you ever ridden in a Waymo? I was in Scottsdale a few weeks ago and was in one
With that said, NASA does not need to be some massive agency. Investments in space, outside of national defense, should be done primarily through private sector
Have you ever ridden in a Waymo? I was in Scottsdale a few weeks ago and was in one
With that said, NASA does not need to be some massive agency. Investments in space, outside of national defense, should be done primarily through private sector
Posted on 2/26/25 at 10:44 pm to dnm3305
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Private sector is always vastly more efficient than the government doing anything. We learn this over and over and over. But yall still want to give the government 100’s of billions to do something that a private entity like SpaceX or a competitor can do in a fraction of the time with a fraction of the budget to no coat to the taxpayer?
I’m all for cutting the federal government, by a lot, but we should have oversight into space. We should utilize private sector for outsourcing certain aspects, but I don’t want a private company controlling space weapons, colonization, surveillance, etc. what if they hold it hostage one day from the US….
Posted on 2/26/25 at 10:47 pm to IT_Dawg
This. The risk of Kessler Syndrome means there needs to be oversight
But NASA also doesn't need to have a budget close to what it has currently
But NASA also doesn't need to have a budget close to what it has currently
Posted on 2/26/25 at 10:47 pm to Luke
NASA does all sorts of research and testing for all sorts of organizations, colleges, and businesses. They are much more than just going to space.
Posted on 2/26/25 at 10:47 pm to HubbaBubba
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Shut your fricking whore mouth! If it wasn't for NASA, we wouldn't have TANG! This country wouldn't be the same if we'd grown up without it!
Tang, an orange flavored concoction of chemicals and sugars in a powdered form at the store that you mix with water at home.
I wonder if RFK has Tang in his cross hairs for sugar and chemical content.
Posted on 2/26/25 at 10:52 pm to Chad504boy
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Space is important.
Satellite technology is important for communications and networks.
EDIT: Someone made a good point about avoiding asteroid collisions. I'll concede that one.
Beyond that...nah.
This is not Star Trek. We're not going where no man has gone before, and even if we did, so what? We're not "colonizing" anything. And even if we did, it wouldn't take but one bomb to destroy an entire Mars colony, and we can't get along well enough here on Earth to prevent that from happening.
As soon as some other country catches up with us and figures out how to get there, the whole thing will be over.
"Space, the final frontier" is a modern day Tower of Babel.
This post was edited on 2/26/25 at 10:58 pm
Posted on 2/26/25 at 10:54 pm to Luke
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