Department of Defense Budget: $401.7 billion
NASA Budget: $16.5 billion
What benefits to mankind have we gained from the military's added capacity to kill Iraqis? For what the space program has provided us with, for the developments in computing, physics, chemistry, biology, electrical engineering, probably psychology, a price tag of $16.5 billion is cheap for what NASA accomplishes on an annual basis! NASA has a comparably tight purse to SETI, just a larger remit.
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Department of Defense Budget: $401.7 billion NASA Budget: $16.5 billion What benefits to mankind have we gained from the military's added capacity to kill Iraqis? For what the space program has provided us with, for the developments in computing, physics, chemistry, biology, electrical engineering, probably psychology, a price tag of $16.5 billion is cheap for what NASA accomplishes on an annual basis! NASA has a comparably tight purse to SETI, just a larger remit.