re: New Photos of Jupiter taken by the Juno Spacecraft

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We couldn't put a dent in our country's woes by stopping space exploration funding.

NASA represents like .5% of our federal budget. Welfare ALONE is over 12%.

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While I support NASA, this kind of thought process is why the budget will never be corralled. NASA only gets 18 billion and it's only a drop in the bucket compared to social security, Medicare, and defense spending, but it's one of many drops that represents the 24% of the budget that isn't entitlements and defense. All of these departments that are too small to make a dent end up comprising nearly $1 trillion when the dust settles. If there is room to cut and be more efficient, it should happen regardless of the relative size of the department.

Anyway, cool pictures nonetheless.