Money spent fighting a morally justifiable war with Russia that we aren’t actually having to fight is money well spent IMO.
Comment on bro pls
cantstopthesignal@sh.itjust.works 7 months agoThe US has given 4 times that to Ukraine. That’s 2/3rds the budget of NASA.
psycho_driver@lemmy.world 7 months ago
daellat@lemmy.world 7 months ago
They have mostly given stuff they weren’t going to use anymore worth that amount when bought new.
psmgx@lemmy.world 7 months ago
How many people has the moon killed? Cuz Russia has killed tens of thousands. They’ve lost on the order of 250k of their own guys, and probably inflicted roughly the same numbers on the AFU.
The moon doesn’t kill old ladies sitting in their apartment.
JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
This initial budget estimate is 44x the 500M initial estimate of the jwst for comparison. Jwst eventually ballooned to 20B, but I’m guessing this would similarly balloon over time as well.
JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
That’s actually surprising that NASA only has 50% more budget than a single particle accelerator, given the huge number of cutting edge projects NASA is working on.
Necromnomicon@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Only about half a penny of every federal tax dollar goes to NASA.
JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
Source www.space.com/10849-nasa-budget-contribute.html
uis@lemmy.world 7 months ago
This is one-time vs recurring payment
JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
That’s why I compared it to 44x the initial jwst budget