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Re:Four Earth-sized planets detected orbiting the nearest su... by njharman on Thursday August 10, 2017 @02:54PM (#14982902)
The military application of rockets is only reason we got the tech to reach space and military application of satellites is why we figured out how to stay there and the militaristic penis measuring between nations is only reason we reached moon.

Also, - large part of budget is salaries and pensions. - looks like %budget for military is lowest it's been in 20 years, (in 2015) 16% https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_budget_of_the_United_...

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Re:Four Earth-sized planets detected orbiting the nearest su... by Dylan16807 on Friday August 11, 2017 @01:34AM (#14986827)
> looks like %budget for military is lowest it's been in 20 years

The point is the size of it, not the trendline.

NASA got 2-4% to go to the moon. Right now it's at 0.5%. Imagine how much space they could do with 8%.

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