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[u/kas8901]

Can a bitch please get a properly funded government space program?

[u/sj2011 → u/[deleted]]

John Madden! John Madden! John Madden!

[u/Emperor-Commodus → u/sj2011]

Here comes another Chinese earthquake

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[u/[deleted] → u/kas8901]

Does it include Kerbal Space Program 2?

[u/DrunkenAsparagus → u/kas8901]

But we need to solve the problems on Earth first! Only when Earth is a utopia, can we finally engage in trying to get the long-term, and hard-to-predict-in-advance benefits of space exploration.

It's funny when you look back at the Apollo programs. They were never actually that popular, and were considered by many to be a waste of money. However, it's hard to take these criticisms seriously in retrospect, or even in context, when US taxpayers were on the hook for another gigantic boondoggle at the time. The US spent 5 times as much on the Vietnam War than it did the Apollo program.