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<blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 9327129" data-attributes="member: 177"><p>And you seem to be missing my points:</p><p></p><p>1) As a very practical matter, we do not spend enough on space exploration for that to be a good funding source for what you want to do. Our science budget is small. All of NASA is a whopping <em>three-tenths of a percent</em> of the federal budget. If you want big bucks for big problems, you won't get them out of the space exploration budget. You can take all that money, and not move the needle on the problems you are concerned about. </p><p></p><p>2) The technologies developed to do the science work are constantly being spun off into the rest of the world, everything from fabrics worn by firefighters to image processing that is ultimately used to gauge the impacts of drought on agriculture. This is how the Space Program pays for itself and more. Killing funding would be killing those advances.</p><p></p><p>3) You are currently reading on a screen that is driven by electronics that rely on scientific knowledge that, decades and a century ago, had no known practical purpose. We are slowly coming into the realm of quantum computing, that, again, is based on work that had no practical purpose at the time. We cannot predict what will eventually come from current research, but if you don't <em>do</em> the current research, the advances of the coming decades and century will not happen. Eliminating pure science research limits what tools you will have to apply to problems of the future.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Umbran, post: 9327129, member: 177"] And you seem to be missing my points: 1) As a very practical matter, we do not spend enough on space exploration for that to be a good funding source for what you want to do. Our science budget is small. All of NASA is a whopping [I]three-tenths of a percent[/I] of the federal budget. If you want big bucks for big problems, you won't get them out of the space exploration budget. You can take all that money, and not move the needle on the problems you are concerned about. 2) The technologies developed to do the science work are constantly being spun off into the rest of the world, everything from fabrics worn by firefighters to image processing that is ultimately used to gauge the impacts of drought on agriculture. This is how the Space Program pays for itself and more. Killing funding would be killing those advances. 3) You are currently reading on a screen that is driven by electronics that rely on scientific knowledge that, decades and a century ago, had no known practical purpose. We are slowly coming into the realm of quantum computing, that, again, is based on work that had no practical purpose at the time. We cannot predict what will eventually come from current research, but if you don't [I]do[/I] the current research, the advances of the coming decades and century will not happen. Eliminating pure science research limits what tools you will have to apply to problems of the future. [/QUOTE]
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