We spend on space research that advances our understanding of physics and world about 2% the money we spend on military. Is this really the priority?
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interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 2 months agoImagine if we actually tried to improve things without doing stupid space shit for nazi missile nerds ?
Jankatarch@lemmy.world 2 months ago
interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Whatever happened to the “peace dividend” eh
AnyOldName3@lemmy.world 2 months ago
The money spent on the Apollo program wasn’t all packed into a suitcase and taken to the moon, it was spent and reinjected into the economy. In particular, some of it went to the wages of some of the most highly-skilled, best-paying jobs that women and black people could get in the fifties and sixties, and that did a lot of good directly, before we even get onto indirect effects like inspiring generations of people to pursue a career in STEM subjects or developing technologies that would be used elsewhere.
interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
I understand the side-benefits, but imagine if they worked on getting the actual benefits rather than an excuse to develop intercontinental nuclear weapon delivery systems under the guise of civilian space travel using public funds.
Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Doing “stupid space stuff” in no way prevents us from improving things. The NASA budget is not even a rounding error in the grand scheme of things. And getting rid of the nazi nerds is an entirely different conversation.
JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
In a way he’s right, the space race was really a dick-measuring contest against the ruskies to demonstrate launch capabilities.
But yeah, we’ve gotten a lot more from NASA than just winning a dick-measuring contest.