

Space shuttle Atlantis   (Source: NASA/Bill Ingalls)










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RE: Kids say the darndest things
By GuinnessKMF on 7/21/2011 10:33:32 AM , Rating: 5
While that might be true, I think I speak for most of the readers here when I say "F that noise!"

Forget doing what's practical, doing what's practical is boring, we only live once, and I want to live my life knowing that we're only taking steps forward.

NASA may be viewed as a unnecessary expense (As some video linked off some other article mentioned, it's only a half cent on the dollar of our taxes), but it's one of the most successful government programs, the return on investment may not be direct, but advances in technology due to NASA have more than made up for the cost (good lord I don't want to imagine a world without tang!) If we're going to leave our children in debt, I'd rather we do it with something to show for it.

RE: Kids say the darndest things
By delphinus100 on 7/21/11, Rating: 0
RE: Kids say the darndest things
By Moishe on 7/21/2011 3:37:16 PM , Rating: 4
I didn't sign up for allowing my tax dollars to be abused by a large number of welfare recipients...

I want a return on my tax dollars.

Space exploration and technology are valuable and worthy things to spend our money on. They produce something and thus need to be supported.

Most welfare recipients produce nothing and simply suck up resources that could be used by any number of other things.

My point is that if you're going to say that taxpayers didn't sign on to space exploration, you should be more strongly fighting to prevent the much larger and more prolific waste of taxpayer resources in many other areas.

RE: Kids say the darndest things
By mcnabney on 7/21/11, Rating: 0
RE: Kids say the darndest things


