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Re:NASA Gives Up on LISA by ars on Friday April 08, 2011 @04:25PM (#2425461)
Very little. Most of the military budget goes to research of one kind or another. The rest goes to pay salaries for all the military employees.
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Re:NASA Gives Up on LISA by prawn on Friday April 08, 2011 @05:26PM (#2425674)
Are you just making that up? R&D is around 10% of the US military budget (and the US military budget is roughly 50% of the world budget).

If the construction, deployment, staffing, etc was pointed towards space research and exploration, we'd be able to push forward all sorts of projects.

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