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Poor NASA

Posted by michael on from the insufficient-campaign-contributions dept.

ruszka writes: "NASA is getting tossed further down the list again, it seems.. Now they're being hounded for the expenses of the space station.. CNN has the article."

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  1. Nothing like wasting money. by -douggy · · Score: 0, Troll
    Yeah billions on electronic monitoring stations. When the real evil in this world uses untraceable postal communication.


    Missile defence systems that dont work


    Science isn't important kids remember what uncle sam tells you


    oh well

  2. What does NASA want? by yzquxnet · · Score: 0, Troll

    What do they want? A blank check? They were running major budget overages. I think it is a good thing for someone to tell them to keep it within what is budgeted. I as much as anyone want to see the space station thrive, but not if it is going to cost us an arm and a leg. Nasa is no different than any other government agency. They are money sucking mongrels.

  3. Re:Before people start bitching by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    This may all be true, but it misses the point. Our national budget is, in the final analysis, a fixed sum. Every dollar we spend on one thing is a dollar we can't spend on something else. Now there surely is lot of waste in the budget and there are things that probably aren't as worth while as NASA science. But it is a question of priorities. Every dollar spent on NASA is a dollar that can't be spent on feeding the hungry, housing the poor, and educating the young with more or better paid teachers(or both). I would much rather see science classes with 10 students to a teacher, rather than Al Gores "hey lets point a camera at the earth from space" crap. If you have ever worked with kids, as I have, you know that even in the small groups of 15 motivated kids such as I have worked with there is little time for personal interaction. Most of the time is spent just corralling them all into the same direction. (No I am not a teacher(with my spelling how could I be?), don't assume that I have a union agenda in hiring more teachers at higher slaries)

  4. Re:Before people start bitching by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Inspiration is not a justification for tens of billions of dollars of funding.