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In response to "I can point to any project the government spends money on and say that some other thing deserves the money more" by oblique

Someday leaving Earth ranks about 500th on the list of issues facing Americans

Posted by Will Hunting (aka JoeMetz) Apr 14 '10, 08:46

unless the Martians are hiring and have affordable health care, it's a non-starter.

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Until that asteriod comes a calling. It is a super-long-term project but one that we cannot abandon for short-term reasons -- nm - oblique Apr 14, 08:48 9
- You're using a 1990s Bruce Willis / Ben Affleck movie as your basis for government spending. - ty97 Apr 14, 08:50 8
  - I'm just saying that there are many reasons why we need to have an active space program and some of them are inevitabilities -- nm - oblique Apr 14, 08:52 7
    - No one is cutting NASA. -- nm - ty97 Apr 14, 08:53 6
      - But they are dropping our ability to get into orbit independently for the next X years (maybe 10?). That's a major problem -- nm - oblique Apr 14, 08:55 5
        
        Thing is, even if funding for Constellation wasn't cut. Since Constellation was behind schedule, nothing is different in those 10 years. - musubi Apr 14, 08:59
        
        To get people into orbit. There are all sorts of launches in the US to get satellites and other payloads into orbit -- nm - Roger More Apr 14, 08:58
        
        I'm wondering what percentage of Americans would rate that as a bigger problem than unemployment, healthcare and gas prices. - Jim Apr 14, 08:58 1
        
        No one is saying it is a bigger problem. The government can multitask (supposedly) and in those terms, I've got a ton of other programs we should cut - oblique Apr 14, 08:59
        
        Yeah, guess they realized there's more important things than mice screwing in zero-gravity. -- nm - Will Hunting Apr 14, 08:56
I appreciate that Obama appears to be taking a pragmatic approach to Space Travel, while not abonaning NASA completely. - musubi Apr 14, 08:48 1
- Yup. -- nm - Krusty Apr 14, 08:58
either way? Outsourcing (which is basically what we're doing) to the Russians isnt the answer though. -- nm - Jovian Apr 14, 08:48 1
- No, we should outsource to US businesses. - Will Hunting Apr 14, 08:50

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