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Originally Posted by JoMar
Now that's funny. NASA's budget is .049% of the 4.4 trillion gdp for 2019. Ignorance is no excuse for data but sometimes we try to make cases based on it. Weather forecasting, GPS, bio-medical research are all benefits that we enjoy and use. Commercial corporations (the ones that hire people and sell us stuff) have been created for the industry. Opportunities for computer science and engineering students (our kids and grandkids) grow every day as new challenges are discovered. If you want to go after the spending of money we don't have, go after the other 99.51%
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Just to be accurate, I think your budget number for NASA is about 10 times too low. The budget is around $20 billion, which is about 0.49 percent of total spending of $4.4 trillion. And, the GPD is over $20 trillion, which is about equal to the total national debt.. Our country's debt to GDP ratio is one of the highest in the world, but we are doing better than Greece. My point about sending a man to the moon is that, it is touted as a great benefit for the world, so why don't we expect the rest of the world to share in the cost?