| ▲ | palata 3 hours ago | |
I understand why they want to fly. I don't understand why the people is fine paying taxes for that. | ||
| ▲ | TeMPOraL 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] | |
Some are. Money being fungible and all, the rest can pretend their tax money is going exclusively to their favorite programs, whether that's healthcare or environment or building roads or starting wars or funding more startups or whatever. | ||
| ▲ | discardable_dan an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |
Bro, of all the stupid shit we spend taxes on ($50 billion on corn subsidies), you're mad about space exploration? | ||
| ▲ | hn_acc1 an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |
The space program has created some great technology we use every day now. | ||
| ▲ | anon291 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | |
Independent of how scientifically awesome this is, this is probably the most cost effective long term propaganda. Why waste money on posters when you can orbit the moon. | ||