Comments on: Does the government spend too much money on NASA?

By: Pepsicolacat

Pepsicolacat — Sat, 13 Aug 2011 06:38:50 +0000

What have we got out of it? Are fucking retarded? We got orange tang, velcrow, cell phones, Internet, cable tv, information, education, jobs, private companies, solar panels, and millions of more patents. You really have to ask this question? We spent more on the bank bailout than we did on NASA in fifty years. We collect more money in one day than we spend on NASA from companies that are here because of space technology. Probably in 10minuted. It doesn't matter if your a liberal or a republican they both benefit. It helps with our military, keeping peace, environment, energy, and so on. Look at Egypt and the other countries in the medal east. It started more of a revolution in that region than in five thousand years of wars. Think of what we lot by only spending 18billion dollars. Think of the money alone the Internet has saved and created. The lives it has saved, fed, provided medical care, informed the world of disasters, injustice, and much more. Think how much the world has changed with facebook, the iPhone, cellphones, computers. Six years ago leaders could do horrific shit with no evidence it was done. 8yrs ago a picture would show up online days later, five years ago a shitty video, today HD video from a third world country is showing up online as it happens. What has NASA brought? If a republican wanted to spend money on space it's a waste of money for democrats and if a democrat thinks its good republicans think it's stupid. Heres an idea. Lets stop spending money on welfare for the rich and poor people who keep burping out kids they can not afford. Medical class families only have1-3 kids and it poor people have six. Rich people are taking tax breaks not doing something. Like being paid not to grow corn, pray the gay away. 200,000,000 for the bridge for 54 people in Alaska.

By: paulmy

paulmy — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 19:34:53 +0000

I think that we should supply food and water and eduction for every human being first.Right now over half the worlds pop. is living in poverty.If we supplied these basics first.Then we would have at least twice as many scientists,engineers ….Well just about every job title and not only that but if these people could stop thinking about how there were going to eat and start thinking how to improve everything from a screwdriver to a spaceship.our technology would advance SOOO much faster on top of all of that think about it ….if everyone had a job and had a higher income.There would be SO much more tax dollars available to fund space related projects ……………..So basically im just trying to say 6.7 billion fed,educated people could get a lot more done then 3.35b feed educated ppl .Like the old saying" 2 heads are better the 1"

By: ddoutrich

ddoutrich — Sun, 02 May 2010 16:46:34 +0000

I think we as americans should support NASA.Not just because a satelite can tell us where a hurricane is,but to create jobs. Those jobs would include; welding,machining,plastics,electronics,seamstress,engineering,IT Technology, fuel making any many more for different companies around the globe. Then with one of those jobs i could continue to support the American Breast Cancer Foundation,local mission,Boys and Girls Club,United Way,FOP,and many more. How am i to support a charity without a Job!

By: Ariel

Ariel — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 20:00:11 +0000

You do realize that they are shutting down the shuttle launches from the states and that we will be sending our people over to russia to do so? Also, there are roughly 16 different nations up in the international space station contributing parts and helping to fund it. Don't flatter youreslves by thinking that we're they only ones doing anything.

By: marylee333

marylee333 — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 16:04:51 +0000

of course it wil be possible some day!! but the question to ask is 'will we want to' or 'do we need to' back to what susan says… HOW ABOUT NOT EATING SO MUCH PIZZA??

By: Ariel

Ariel — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 16:04:11 +0000

I completely agree. NASA has become a huge peace keeping thing. If you told the American peoples durign the cold war that they would become FRIENDS with the russian's up in space instead of battling it out they would not believe you.
Now look at today. They've even created a language that's a cross between russian and english

By: Susan

Susan — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 15:55:00 +0000

Are you kidding? Thanks to NASA things like GPS, cellphones and weather forcasting are possible! I bet that's somethign most people can say they need or want in today's world. The experiments they are doing on the international space station are things to help improve earth- things they can't really do here. Not to mention people spend more on pizza (27 billion) then on NASA (18 million).

By: Grounder

Grounder — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 21:25:05 +0000

What of the deep ocean? We have not fully divined its contents.

By: Astrominationist

Astrominationist — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 23:03:19 +0000

Once something is well known or experienced it gets boring to man (it's just a fact). Now that Earth has been studied and explored, we need to move onto bigger things, imagine if us human beings were able to occupy more then just one planet! What if we had more then 2? More then 3!?

By: LordTiberivs

LordTiberivs — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 12:27:41 +0000

right right, I get you there. But my point was that 18 billion is literally nothing for one year of NASA. It wouldn't make a difference to the war effort of you took that cash away and spread it out into the Iraq offensive. We can't just stop all other projects in order to save everyone's lives…. Should we cut city funding toward garbage disposal because the war is more important? How about bridge and road maintenance. Theres alot of money there that could go to the war?