Obama's nee fiscal year budget to cut $226 million dollars from Mars expedition
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[QUOTE=DarkZero135;34701395]Suck it Gingrich[/QUOTE]
Like Gingrich cares. All he has to do is find something liberals like just as much as Space and he's set as far as he's concerned.
[QUOTE=yawmwen;34705202]Science and space provide tangible benefits that increase our standard of living. If you want to look at it from a practical perspective, stimulating scientific research stimulates the economy.[/QUOTE]
But that is a very long term stimulus, while reallocating resources within the Federal Budget can induce short and medium term growth.
Plus, private institutions are getting their science on too.
I am not saying that I am happy about the cuts, I am just saying that it was only one of the bajillion things that were cut in the latest budget, and that, when things get better, more money will probably go back into this kind of research.
[QUOTE=person11;34705366]But that is a very long term stimulus, while reallocating resources within the Federal Budget can induce short and medium term growth.
Plus, private institutions are getting their science on too.
I am not saying that I am happy about the cuts, I am just saying that it was only one of the bajillion things that were cut in the latest budget, and that, when things get better, more money will probably go back into this kind of research.[/QUOTE]
I just think it is funny that we are cutting shit like this(which is insanely small compared to the budget) versus cutting what needs to be cut(Welfare, Medicare, Social Security, and the Military).
That stuff is definitely next. And the Military is losing 500 billion by the end of 2012 in automatic cuts
[QUOTE=archangel125;34704750]Humanity will explore, and possibly even terraform and colonize mars.
America just likely won't be a part of it.
[editline]14th February 2012[/editline]
We've gotta look to China and India now.[/QUOTE]
The [I]American government[/I] may to be such a big part of it but NASA will likely always have a place, maybe not as the bleeding edge of space development but at the very least a regulatory body, sort of like the FAA for space.
SpaceX and the like however have got the private sector ball rolling which will be the thing that makes Space exploration and travel economically feasible.
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