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Originally Posted by scaeagles
How many thousands of inventions and discoveries came from the push to put men on the moon, or even into orbit? I couldn't even begin to quantify them.
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Lots, but that is one of the points in cutting the program to return to the moon. Those inventions and advancements have already been made and going to the moon essentially just repeats them.
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This will undoubtedly lead to tens of thousands of lost jobs (some reports says hundreds of thousands), so it seems strange to me that this is cut leading to job loss, but Obama wants 100 billion for job programs.
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That's attributing to this spending a huge efficiency in creating employment that would be amazing. However, overall the NASA budget is being increased and with more cheaper programs I would expect that science and engineer employment likely would increase. Though specific jobs that have been strategically distributed throughout congressional districts may be at risk.
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We encourage kids through scholarships and grants and whatever to learn math and science and go to university to pursue such fields, but then cut what the government spends on those things.
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Again, the NASA budget request is an
increase. And a refocus towards hard science (manned space flight may be cool, but it accomplishes very little actual science).
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Originally Posted by €uroMeinke
I don't know - if these really was "better" then tell us what the "wow" is, what are all these extra "science funds" going to buy us? Pragmatic sure, inspiring? not a bit.
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Interestingly, Senator Richard Shelby seems to have the opposite reaction to you. You feel this is a move away from inspiration to boring pragmatism. He sees it in the other direction, an abandonment of science in favor of inspiration:
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Originally Posted by Richard Shelby
The president’s proposed NASA budget begins the death march for the future of U.S. human spaceflight. If this budget is enacted, NASA will no longer be an agency of innovation and hard science. It will be the agency of pipe dreams and fairy tales.
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I'd be curious to know what hard science he things putting humans into low earth orbit has uniquely accomplished over the last 30 years. I suspect it is really the hard science of constructing booster rockets in his state.