Re:Vast New Stores of Water Reported on the Moon
by jiggawatts on Friday April 14, 2023 @03:23AM
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There's adventure you fund yourself, and then there's adventure that taxpayers fund to the tune of several trillion dollars.
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Re:Vast New Stores of Water Reported on the Moon
by Chathamization on Friday April 14, 2023 @12:21PM
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Yeah, if a huge chunk of DARPA's budget was spent sending people to climb mountains "Because it's there," people wouldn't be happy. The NASA budget for aeronautics is 1/8th the budget devoted to sending people into space "because it's there." Yet the aeronautics research is much more likely to have an actual positive impact on people's lives.