Comment Re:Titan or Bust! (Score 2) 70
We can do more than one thing at a time. A government is composed of multiple people after all.
In terms of government pending, there's priorities but also diminishing returns. For example, you could try cutting everything except your top 3 items. But those top 3 items aren't necessarily going to get done faster or better proportional to massive amount spent. NASA's budget is about a third of a percent of the US federal budget. It's small potatoes, and yields a fair bit in return for science and education. We could 10X it and it would still be a smaller slice than it was in the 1960. (some where around 4%). And I'm not sure we're get 10X more science or education out of it. At 4% you do get quite a bit of political clout, but the US is not currently looking for more. (we've been burning it with or Presidential choices in the last 20th and early 21st century)