/sci/ - Science & Math

>>12267757
>the billions the government wastes on space programs would.
No, it wouldn't. The US annually spends $735 billion on its various social programs. NASA's annual budget is $22.6 billion. Adding NASA's budget to the social programs budget would increase the amount of spending available on social programs by barely over 3%.

Think about the amount of homeless and starving in the US right now. Do you honestly think that 3% would help them in any meaningful way? Do you think that getting an extra 3% is worth forcing thousands of highly skilled engineers into unemployment and crippling America's space infrastructure worth it?

>>11673732
Both. Both are subhuman.

>>11561133
I don't think that would work, because they would lean more on their emotional tugging that money for exploration is stealing money from the poor and misfortuned.

>>11561143
It probably was very expensive during the early days of sail when a month long trip would be daunting.

>>11561144
TBF one of the scary things about the Borg is that they are a kind of utopian society. There's no conflict within the collective. Everyone is cared for and housed. There's no unemployment. Everything is used at the maximum efficiency possible. You just have to sell your soul to join.

>>11452441
>ESA is there in the first place because european nations can only spend so much money on spaceflight without the opposition screaming about "MUH WELLFARE"
I hate those kinds of "people".

>>11352233
>dumbass Guardian writer does not understand that Musk could either sling some typical ballast into orbit like they always do, or be original and make space exploration a bit more exciting for the common man and send his old roadster up.
The Guardian writer is probably complaining exactly because the launch was popular and exiting. Most people don't see space flight as being useful at all, so any big show (no matter how cheap) is seen as wasteful. If SpaceX just sent a hunk of concrete into space without hype, then that writer wouldn't have cared about how much Elon spent on SpaceX.