Re:How will we fund it? Spend it elsewhere! (Score 1)

Budgetary increases in one area tend to be offset by decreases in related areas. So really what we are talking about is 1B$ that will be spent on NASA instead of other scientific research. Realistically I think that the question isn't "what social programs could we spend it on instead?", but "given 1B$ to spend on scientific research in the next year, what can we accomplish?"

That makes it a lot more clear that this is a cynical "bread and circuses" ploy on the part of an administration that doesn't have much respect for science or truth.

-A young postdoc who just got sold down the river