Do you?


Do you?


You first, you self righteous piece of shit.

what a fucking waste of space; go kill yourself.

No.

ok, i'll dignify you with an answer.

just do a little googling, and see how many non profit organizations and private sector fund raisers are done around the world pretty much every week with research being the beneficiaries. nasa gets $16 billion dollars a year for their operations.

space research is monopolized by the usa, since the 50's, it has become a symbol of power and a competition among nations to prove who is the most powerful and, once the soviet union collapse, the u.s. have stood alone here since space research is so expensive. in order for other countries and their people to participate in space research, they have to immigrate to the united states and diverge money to fund the organization, not to mention the u.n.

there's hundreds of archeological sites, excavations and deep sea studies that are virtually halted and abandoned because of lack of funds. nasa has seldom stopped researches or missions because of this cause, most of the time they get stopped is because of other circumstances. money is not one of them.

funny fact: most of nasa's technology was developed from nazi research and they even benefitted from nazi scientists for their development.

I don't think NASA is perfect either, but to say that they always have a budget to do their research, isn't quite true. The SETI project has been halted quite a few times. The Hubble has had to wait, because of no money. After the shuttle accidents, NASA had to spend their money on aeronautical research before they could take to the skies again. Sure they get more money than most other scientific institutes, but hey, they've got the government and military backing them up, bigtime.

I still think that spending money on space research is better than spending it on wars and the arms trade.

Edit: The NASA-military alliance is called the Partnership Council.

who gives a fuck..

like to me.. its a larff