NASA spacecraft to probe possibility of life in Europa's salty ocean

Re:NASA spacecraft to probe possibility of life in Europa's ... by bastawhiz on Wednesday September 25, 2024 @08:04AM (#41646415)

By that logic the powers that be can arbitrarily decrease the amount of money for social or science programs at any time at their whim. Why do any science when you could be feeding the starving, and money could run out at any second?

That's ridiculous, though. But it's the logical extreme of the defeatist argument that there's no way to get more money for these things.

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Re:NASA spacecraft to probe possibility of life in Europa's ... by Epa095 on Wednesday September 25, 2024 @10:31AM (#41647965)

So you think we can always just tax them more, and they would accept that? That's equally absurd.

It's obvious that we can tax them a bit, but if we tax them too much they use their power to stop it. That power manifests in many ways. It can be to give money to right wing politicians, or it can be to move to lower-tax regimes. But anyway it's clear that there is not an unlimited pot of rich/corporate tax money out there ready for the picking without resistance.

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