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Comment Re:Why do the tax payers have to pay for all this? (Score 1) 106

Ohhhhh you're mixing up "not sending humans into orbit to chill out" with "not doing useful space research"

Seriously, humans cost *so* much to get up there. It cost us over $150 billion (inflation-adjusted) to go to the moon. The ISS has (coincidentally) also cost about $150 billion so far.

Opportunity and Spirit cost us less than a billion. Sending Cassini to orbit Saturn was about $3 billion.

Do you think the ISS has provided 50x the value of Cassini? As much value as we could have gotten from 300 rovers?

Comment Re:Aggression (Score 1) 532

This just in, taxes are violent, therefore we should have a government that runs entirely on charitable donations. Therefore, it's hypocritical for any tax-funded government to worry about murdering.

Sorry about your misanthropy; but I'm actually worried about *actual* violence perpetuated by our government. You know, like slaughtering civilians in those silly sand countries.

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