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Top 10 Reasons for a Space Program
Its_My_Hair writes "Space.com has an article on the top ten reasons for a space program. Most of the reasons seem to say that our space programs are here for our safety." The only necessary reason is "because it's there".
I would rather spend those "billions" of taxpayer's dollars on something like this that could help us all, rather than the reported 8 billion per month the US is spending to occupy Iraq.
What are we getting out of that? Dead soldiers and a whole new generation of Muslims who will hate the US enough to fly airplanes into offices towers.
That money spent on better Global Communications, space based energy alternatives, space based medical research and just expanding our knowledge of the universe would do more to bring about peace and understanding than all the Apache helicopers put together. Sharing the wealth and prosperity and all that.
Crazy idea, eh? Ever heard the saying you get more flies with honey than vinegar?
Never by hatred has hatred been appeased, only by kindness - the Buddha