• @Sanyanov@lemmy.world
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    571 year ago

    A budget that goes into space exploration, development of groundbreaking science that has its use both in space and on Earth, popularization of science among masses, democratizing access to cutting-edge knowledge, making it free for everyone, including kids and the poor, to access at any time? Yes, please.

        • @aidan@lemmy.world
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          21 year ago

          Probably true to some extent. Though, at what point do you decide it’s better to just directly give the money to people?

          • themeatbridge
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            41 year ago

            There’s no situation where it isn’t better to just give the money directly to the people who need it.

          • @flerp@lemm.ee
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            31 year ago

            Considering it is such a small percentage of the budget and they have developed so much useful technology (https://www.howtogeek.com/831363/these-nasa-innovations-are-all-around-us-everyday/)

            I would say, take the money from other things that suck, like handouts to the rich and wasteful military overspending which would easily cover the things we need to cover. Defunding NASA would contribute to the dummification of the country and is a terrible idea.

            • @aidan@lemmy.world
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              11 year ago

              Considering it is such a small percentage

              Currently, but during many of the innovations it was a much higher percentage. And why do you assume there wouldn’t be other, maybe more impactful innovations, if NASA money and NASA researchers weren’t working on something else?

      • @GeneralVincent@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        That would be great, but that’s not NASA’s department. Try Congress first. Then the DOD. Edit: and then the morally bankrupt billionaires.

        • @aidan@lemmy.world
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          11 year ago

          I’m not advocating NASA donate the money, I’m advocating considering cutting NASA’s budget

    • a Kendrick fan
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      21 year ago

      Especially if you don’t live in the shitty country. Yes please, sacrifice the physical and mental wellbeing of Americans for an indepth knowledge of the Universe just before you regress into full facism. Your war crimes won’t be overlooked though.

      • DarkenLM
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        281 year ago

        I am not even American, but I do know that the US Army budget makes the NASA budget look like pocket change.

        I’d say you’re focusing on the wrong sector…

        • @jayandp@sh.itjust.works
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          121 year ago

          Seriously, I’m always confused by people complaining about NASA’s budget. It’s peanuts in comparison to the other stuff our Government wastes money on. Also doesn’t help that the government itself is responsible for a lot of the money wasting that happens at NASA. The Artemis program being the perfect example, which is basically just a glorified jobs program at this point, as mandated by the government, instead of actually being a smart way of building a rocket.

          • @gohixo9650@discuss.tchncs.de
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            81 year ago

            US americans are complaining for nasa, public schools if they don’t have kids, public health sector, even for bike lanes because they use no bikes, but almost never for all the military expenses on the other side of the earth.

            • @flerp@lemm.ee
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              41 year ago

              People who are so uneducated that they think funding public education is a bad investment are great proof of why we need better public education…

      • @GeneralVincent@lemmy.world
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        111 year ago

        NASA isn’t sacrificing American’s wellbeing, regressing into fascism, or committing war crimes. That’s multiple other branches of the government. Despite whatever media you’re consuming the US gov isn’t one unified dictatorship, as much as a certain political group would like it to be.

        NASA is one of the few branches of our government that’s actually somewhat decent and doesn’t need a complete overhaul to benefit our country or world. It’s already paying us back the relatively small budget allocated to them in several ways. So your comment is basically a whataboutism.