What a shock that when you talk about making NASA a larger budget priority Joe assumes more taxes. Guess that’s how a lifelong tax and spender sees things. I’m thinking more along the lines of taking the 1% of the budget we spend on foreign aid and cutting it to the .48% NASA has now. Take that .52 percent you just saved that you were sending out of the country and give it NASA. That’s a revenue neutral shift I think the majority in the country would get behind.
Another 4 billion a year at the UN. How many want to raise their hands and say that’s money well spent?
The list goes on and on. Again, you’re talking about a 3.8 trillion dollars in spending. It’s not hard to shift enough to triple NASA’s piddling 15 billion.
How? Mars is the closest challenge for us. We need to get past the propulsion problem of fuel and time needed to really get a grasp on what is needed to go further in the universe. Light takes 14 minutes to make it from Mars to Earth right now.
We can send billions of dollars of equipment millions of miles to distant planets but I can’t get retards at ALL the 7 elevens in WNY to have a full pot of coffee and give me change for a $100 dollar bill with anything bigger than friggin $ 5’s.
that’s just crazt that we can get this kind of look at a distant planet. and the rover will be there for 2 years. can’t wait for more serious discoveries.
