[FPSPACE] "Trillions" for Mars

[Zeger Nuyens]

Keith Gottschalk wrote:

>  Inevitably, the annual amount spent on the big science / big
>  exploration project is peanuts compared to the amount spent over the
>  same twelve months on public welfare. Or, if one multiplied it by
>  twenty or thirty times, the public welfare budget, ie for the next
>  two or three decades cumulatively, remains vastly more than what the
>  big science / exploration project will cost. All of us need to be
>  alert to these cheap debating tactics.

Yes, of course. Nasa's budget stands at a mere 1 percent of the federal 
budget. It is just plain dishonest to pretend you could solve education 
and welfare problems with that. But it remains a very powerful argument 
like many arguments 'ex absurdo'.



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Zeger Nuyens
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