NASA: We're sending humans to Mars

Re:NASA: We're sending humans to Mars by ceejayoz on Tuesday December 02, 2014 @05:03PM (#8690266)

> That's a trillion dollars that could have been spent solving world hunger, poverty, disease, even income equality.

Alternate view: we could be a little less warmongery for a decade or so and easily fund the entirety of NASA's history 4-6 times over.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/study-...

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Re:NASA: We're sending humans to Mars by zo1 on Wednesday December 03, 2014 @04:14AM (#8692632)

A further alternate view. We could stop the warmongering entirely, and the NASA funding... Using all those combined trillions of dollars on making the world a better place.

On a side note, I completely agree with you. To us there are completely varying degrees on what we consider useful spending. And on the war-funding we are in agreement; that money should be used first before NASA's funding.

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Re:NASA: We're sending humans to Mars by siquick on Tuesday December 02, 2014 @05:34PM (#8690482)

We could solve all that stuff easily right now without cutting NASA's budget.

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