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So, We Are Going to the Moon Today Huh?

GAJ said:
Looks like they want to cut $5.5 billion out of the $24.4 billion NASA budget.
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And cutting the EPA and NSF budgets by more than half

While increasing the military by 44% :rolleyes:
 
I heard somewhere that Santa Rosa schools could use a few bucks.....
 
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Don't say his name!!!!

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Eldritch said:
It isn't that complicated.

Laws rule society, Laws define nations, we exist as a community of nations. This is truth, not a matter of debate.

All laws are violence. Also not a matter of debate.

Those who have the largest economy have the largest ability to generate the most military force, and thereby control the violence, i.e. control the laws, i.e. control the world either directly or indirectly as they see fit.

Direct control is much more expensive, so the US empire has been wildly successful, by understanding this and exerting control since 1945 through indirect control of the rules, rather than the direct control previous empires like Rome, England, Greece, Mongolia, Spain, etc. Tried to do.

Understanding that logical observation of human society, it feels a safe assumption that large nations with violently opposed viewpoints on what laws should govern (China, Soviet Union, Monarchist Britain, theocratic nations, etc.) being in a position to take the role of largest economy and thereby control of the laws, certainly does represent an imminent threat to the United States as it exists today. A similarly minded ally nation like Japan, modern England, modern Germany, or France logically would not.
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that reads a bit like something out of an old bond film.
stangmx13 said:
IMO, there’s a huge ROI to space-shot type exploration and science. It comes from the massive influx in spending to science and engineering needed to accomplish that exploration. We rarely get to see the return and massive social impact right away.

Here’s some suggestions for the ROI from Apollo. Huge if true.
innotechtoday.com

12 Technologies that Came Out of Apollo - Innovation & Tech Today

The scientists who sent us to the moon, in the process, invented many technologies, far ahead of their time, that we use in our everyday lives.
innotechtoday.com innotechtoday.com
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WRT the link, they forgot to mention bubble wrap. but yeah - none of that would have ever happened without apollo.:rolleyes in all seriousness though, agree completely with the ‘science’ bit. have mentioned before that i worked in aerospace R&D for the first 20+ years of my career. mostly in missile defense (USAF), but also NASA (technology in support of the shuttle program). todays artemis differs in that the research and developments (to my previous point) further space objectives rather than having applications relevant to life on earth. now, if they figure out a way to form a human habitable atmosphere around a dead planet - and can apply that to earth, an atmosphere we are rapidly destroying, maybe now we’re talking.
 
Reli said:
And cutting the EPA and NSF budgets by more than half

While increasing the military by 44% :rolleyes:
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There's been a certain segment of a certain political party that thinks NASA is overfunded. Fools, NASA's budget is not even 0.05% of the Federal Budget. It only peaked at 3% during the Apollo missions.
 
MC BumSlap said:
There's been a certain segment of a certain political party that thinks NASA is overfunded. Fools, NASA's budget is not even 0.05% of the Federal Budget. It only peaked at 3% during the Apollo missions.
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Would this group of people have any overlap with flat-earth believers?
 
augustiron said:
Depends if TacoBell did the space MREs
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Not possible, McDonald’s has the contract. They feed the best in the NFL and Olympic hockey teams when they visit our nation’s capital…so only the best for the brave men and women launched into space on important missions to the moon.
 
Wait, didn’t Rachel Ray develop astronaut food awhile ago? Also in microgravity gases don’t rise so much as remain in a ‘bubble’ around the one who dealt it for several minutes before it gets to the filtration system. Worse in a spacesuit. Otherwise the capsule pretty much stinks of garbage, body odor and antiseptic in general. Hey, TMI butt, someone asked:laughing
 
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