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White House Wants Devastating Cuts To NASA's Mars Exploration

Posted by Unknown on from the carl-sagan-grave-spin-powerful-enough-to-drive-generator dept.

The Bad Astronomer writes "The White House released its proposed NASA budget for FY13, and while much of it remains the same from last year, one particular program got devastating news: Mars exploration got a crippling $226 million cut, more than 38% of its budget. This means killing two future missions outright and threatening others. The reasons for this are complex, including huge cost overruns on James Webb Space Telescope and the Curiosity Mars rover, but it also points to a political lack of valuing science in America." A followup to news from before the budget was released, this has details on the actual proposed cuts and re-allocations.

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  1. Re:Going to Mars is an ego trip by na1led · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    So it makes more sense to pay for weapons and welfare checks? Lets just do away with science altogether, I mean whats the point when we can use that money to house and feed anchor babies and later blow them up like target practice.

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  2. Re:It's a good thing the military is still funded. by Nimey · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    As I said to the other idiot (yes, you're an idiot too): everyone /does/ pay taxes: sales, property, medicare, social security, gasoline, etc.

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  3. Re:It's a good thing the military is still funded. by Nimey · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Oh, you mean the state (and sometimes local) income taxes that people pay?

    Fuckwit. Quit paying attention to Hannity and Limbaugh.

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