The incredible wealth our country has come from NASA and it's scientists.
Look at who developed all our satellite and communications tech. I get not wanting to star gaze, but we should be investing in tech that will put us forward. That was our original model through the department of defense. The most profitable things our country has done were between the doe, dod, and nasa
A NASA that focused on space travel , and warp tech would be awesome.
funding NASA doesn't tell the politicians what kind of porn you watch
If only.... It's sad because it's not the scientists who get rich off of the advancements like cars, oil and pharmaceuticals but the business men.
Then these businesses hoard the money and resist change because they think they won't make money in the short term. For example electric cars are the future but very few car companies are producing any right now. It took Tesla coming into the picture to get the ball rolling.
Research for possible innovations in medicine don't get good funding because there might not be enough money to be made through that particular method.
Not to mention the vague and biased research like chocolate is healthy for you (funded by Hershey's) or milk=strong bones (funded by the dairy industry).
So many possible innovations but almost impossible to get funding because the rich only want to get richer. It's a breath of fresh air when someone like Elon Musk comes in and gets companies like Tesla and SpaceX going, without him who knows if we would be landing rockets by now.
The entire NASA program is fake, spend a couple of hours watching people pick out all the impossible anomolies in the nasa footage, commonsense is all that is needed here. We have never been to 'space' oh unless you believe the drawings of plane-t's and stars that nasa pumps out hahaha