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Saturn V Fallen on Hard Times
n9fzx writes "The best remaining artifact of the Apollo Program, Huntsville's Saturn V, is 'pocked with pits and cracks, and patches of mold and mildew', having survived for forty years outdoors. Alabama's U.S. Space and Rocket Center is trying to raise a measly $5 million in order to preserve the beast, with $1.5 million in the kitty so far. Paypal, anyone?"
I agree with others who say that most of the poor would be better-served with economic development and honest government than with direct aid. Even so, there are plenty of cases miles ahead of servicing a dead rocket. I recently gave money to an orphanage in Guatemala for HIV+ children. I'd be ashamed to give money to something as pointless as a Saturn V when there are causes like that.
>At the cost of $2 per day, 5 million dollars wil sustain almost 7,000 refugees/famine victims in less privileged regions of the world for a whole year.
Give a man a fish, he can eat for a day.
Teach a man to fish, and he can eat forever.
Don't waste your money on that suggestion. Instead, it makes infinitely more sense to educate the people in those regions. The only reason they're stuck there is because there's ususally some sociopathic dictator opressing them. Only education can help these people figure out how to enact true political change (and that's what they really need -- they don't need more food -- that's not the real problem).
All of the long-term problems in these countries often reduce to education.
That all being said, if one were to answer this to all frivolous spendature, the country's worth would decrease, causing all sorts of interesting economic problems.
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i have submitted this as a story. WE will see how DENSE the editors are. LET THE ENERGY FLOW!