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I just feel they shouldn't dump money into it when our nation - and the world, really - is so volatile.
People complain about the president's vacation costs - because it's excess while we're at war, etc. . . well space exploration is an excess as well given the circumstances.
The benefits generated by the quantum-leap from rudimentary rocket technology to man on the moon in around a decade spawned dozens of new technologies, and several new industries, nevermind the hi-tech jobs created by NASA and its providers. You want to be trapped on this little rock as sea levels rise, the population grows, farming yields fall and resources run out? Space has the... room... and resources to feed humanity's desires forever... Earth has enough for, perhaps, a century.
Anyway, you can feed a lot more starving babies by making cuts to the military budget, since the US spends some 30x more on that than on NASA, or by cutting agricultural subsidies, which cost far more and, for the money, sustain far fewer and less well-paid jobs...
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