• @Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In
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    52 months ago

    The military budget is 36x bigger than NASA.

    Mars could be the 51st state if the US were not so war hungry.

    • @[email protected]
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      42 months ago

      Mars colonizing is not really a useful idea, it’s technically somewhat possible but there isn’t a lot to gain from it.

      Instead, keeping the earth habitable would be much more useful.

      • @Szyler
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        42 months ago

        The technology needed to inhabit Mars would 100% benefit the life on earth. Just lookup all the tech we got from the Apollo missions.

          • @[email protected]
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            32 months ago

            Yeah, reason #2937 exactly why I support a nationalized NASA rather than the outsourcing of space travel to corporations and capitalism.

            Space should be ours, all of ours, not just theirs.

      • @Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In
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        22 months ago

        Yes, there are a lot of better things we could be spending the enormous military budget on.

        I chose NASA because it’s the closest to military spending while still being peaceful.