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NASA Plus Streaming: "our new ad-free, no cost, family-friendly streaming service unlocks our Emmy award-winning live coverage, embeds you into our missions through new original video series" (www.nasa.gov)
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[+] -64 points 2 years ago (7 children)

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  • [–] 56 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    A budget that goes into space exploration, development of groundbreaking science that has its use both in space and on Earth, popularization of science among masses, democratizing access to cutting-edge knowledge, making it free for everyone, including kids and the poor, to access at any time? Yes, please.

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  • [+] -27 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I think monetarily supporting people would help them more.

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  • [–] 18 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    We can afford to do both. We choose not to.

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  • [+] -10 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Probably true to some extent. Though, at what point do you decide it's better to just directly give the money to people?

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Considering it is such a small percentage of the budget and they have developed so much useful technology (https://www.howtogeek.com/831363/these-nasa-innovations-are-all-around-us-everyday/)

    I would say, take the money from other things that suck, like handouts to the rich and wasteful military overspending which would easily cover the things we need to cover. Defunding NASA would contribute to the dummification of the country and is a terrible idea.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago

    Considering it is such a small percentage

    Currently, but during many of the innovations it was a much higher percentage. And why do you assume there wouldn't be other, maybe more impactful innovations, if NASA money and NASA researchers weren't working on something else?

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  • [+] -28 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Especially if you don't live in the shitty country. Yes please, sacrifice the physical and mental wellbeing of Americans for an indepth knowledge of the Universe just before you regress into full facism. Your war crimes won't be overlooked though.

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  • [–] 28 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I am not even American, but I do know that the US Army budget makes the NASA budget look like pocket change.

    I'd say you're focusing on the wrong sector..

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Seriously, I'm always confused by people complaining about NASA's budget. It's peanuts in comparison to the other stuff our Government wastes money on. Also doesn't help that the government itself is responsible for a lot of the money wasting that happens at NASA. The Artemis program being the perfect example, which is basically just a glorified jobs program at this point, as mandated by the government, instead of actually being a smart way of building a rocket.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    US americans are complaining for nasa, public schools if they don't have kids, public health sector, even for bike lanes because they use no bikes, but almost never for all the military expenses on the other side of the earth.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago

    NASA isn't sacrificing American's wellbeing, regressing into fascism, or committing war crimes. That's multiple other branches of the government. Despite whatever media you're consuming the US gov isn't one unified dictatorship, as much as a certain political group would like it to be.

    NASA is one of the few branches of our government that's actually somewhat decent and doesn't need a complete overhaul to benefit our country or world. It's already paying us back the relatively small budget allocated to them in several ways. So your comment is basically a whataboutism.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Maybe you's could do a similar thing for healthcare and get healthcare for free, like this new nasa+ thing. Wouldn't that be wild

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago

    The funny thing with tax is you don't get choose how it's spent. Tax money is public money that ought to be spent in the public interest, and NASA is a perfectly good example of this. Other good examples are infrastructure, parks, public healthcare and free education. Bad examples of tax expenditure are the ridiculous military complex, massive corporate subsidies and contractors doing poor work that the government should be directly controlling.

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