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Re:House tells NASA to start planning two Europa missions by fsloth on Saturday May 21, 2016 @04:48AM (#11743847)
I suppose that is an inescapable fact of american politics and free markets in general- everything has a price and usually it is such someone makes a profit.

The fact that Boeing et all wants to sell more rockets does not make researching europa any less relevant, IMO.

It's not as if this congressman is being sold as a champion of human wisdom. Career politicians have other value and should not be judged as philosophers.

Re:House tells NASA to start planning two Europa missions by dragonbonheur on Saturday May 21, 2016 @05:08AM (#11743904)
It would be a gross mistake to think of America as a free market. Zoning laws, for example were established to prevent immigrants and other less privileged people from acquiring property in better neighborhoods. There's a reason why rooms in a house have to be of a certain size and why some people can't plant vegetables in their own front yards - it's not for safety and it's not for beauty, it's to maintain an elite.

http://www.asu.edu/courses/aph294/total-readings/silver%20--...