space shit is cancelled until we solve homelessness and poverty
I mean, the military budget of the USA is around 824.6 billion.
NASA’s budget is only 18-19 billion
It’s estimated that to end extreme poverty would take 175 billion dollars
Clearly, it’s space stuff that’s taking up all money that could otherwise go to help people.
We can’t cut the space budget. We need it to launch the billionaires into the sun
At its peak, funding NASA returned 8 dollars to the economy for every dollar it was given and singlehandedly advanced technology by decades. The money doesn’t get launched into space: all the benefits stay here.
Fuck this “Cut science and art because poor people exist!” bullshit. Make fucking rich people pay their damned taxes. That *ALONE* solves the vast majority of the problems. Make employers hire more people, not keep condensing job duties into more and more single positions (some of us are getting sick of doing the work of three people on barely the salary for one of them). Demand pay rates increase so that EVERYONE with a job makes enough to support themselves. Demand better health care, so that people don’t lose their homes and jobs because someone in their family got fucking cancer, or chronic illness, or severe injury. Science isn’t the problem. The problem is capitalism and greed.
Did you know that the technology that we use to see far away galaxies is the same technology used for mammograms. Plenty of technology developed for space exploration has uses in our everyday lives right here on earth.
….And one reason so many technological and medical breakthroughs end up coming to us as a side effect of space exploration is that it’s one of the few fields of science that still gets so well funded. It’s like, all we have left. It’s become a haven for critical research that would otherwise not be possible under such an anti-intellectual and violent government.
