Comment About fucking time (Score 1) 210
NASA has been a millstone about the necks of honest taxpayers these last forty years.
If space exploration was so vital to private enterprise it wouldn't be a multi-billion dollar tax-payer's boondoggle. Private companies would be rushing to get there first if there was any tangible benefit to be had, which there isn't, apart from communications satellites and GPS.
That whole spin-off bullshit is plain nonsense. It's a notion worthy of the old Communist Bloc countries that the best way to develop better Velcro is not to invest a few thousand in an Earth-bound Velcro lab, but to first build a multi-billion dollar booster, a multi-billion dollar space lab, and send up million-dollar astronauts - all in the hope of getting some better fucking Velcro as a free fucking spinoff.
You want better Velcro - invest directly in Velcro research, not booster research. You want better medicine - buy biotech stock, not space stock. You want better plastics - send that donation to Dow Chemicals, not Acme Rocket, Inc.
If space exploration is really so fucking essential to Mankind, it had better pay its own fucking way.
If space exploration was so vital to private enterprise it wouldn't be a multi-billion dollar tax-payer's boondoggle. Private companies would be rushing to get there first if there was any tangible benefit to be had, which there isn't, apart from communications satellites and GPS.
That whole spin-off bullshit is plain nonsense. It's a notion worthy of the old Communist Bloc countries that the best way to develop better Velcro is not to invest a few thousand in an Earth-bound Velcro lab, but to first build a multi-billion dollar booster, a multi-billion dollar space lab, and send up million-dollar astronauts - all in the hope of getting some better fucking Velcro as a free fucking spinoff.
You want better Velcro - invest directly in Velcro research, not booster research. You want better medicine - buy biotech stock, not space stock. You want better plastics - send that donation to Dow Chemicals, not Acme Rocket, Inc.
If space exploration is really so fucking essential to Mankind, it had better pay its own fucking way.
