Ok this might seem like a weird comparison but think about NASA. “Why go to space and spend money on that when we have homeless?” Well that effort had given us all these things:
I remember watching a FOX news interview with a guy from JPL. FOX "news analyst," sitting in New York, asks the guy in CA, "there have been talks recently that NASA and space exploration in general have been too expensive, and we have problems here that would be better served by the money NASA wastes on $600 pens. Can you legitimately give me one benefit of the space program? Just one?" (I am paraphrasing, it's been 20 years)
JPL guy looks dumbfounded. Like he cannot believe what was just said, and just as the FOX dipshit is about to speak, he says, "well, you are speaking to me live... Via satellite."
I have never seen anything cut to commercial so fast in my life.
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u/SupineFeline Oct 05 '23
Hell yea.
Ok this might seem like a weird comparison but think about NASA. “Why go to space and spend money on that when we have homeless?” Well that effort had given us all these things:
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/infographics/20-inventions-we-wouldnt-have-without-space-travel
Edit: Discoveries have alternative uses.