smentz
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USA, Russia, China, Japan, and UK combined:
military spending: Just over $600Billion
I couldnt find the figures for space spending, but i know the US spent just over 5billion on space exploration last year, and only 28billion on environmental spending.
How can we justify spending less than 1/10th the military budget on the only inhabitable planet in the solar system? thats like building a bad-ass tank with armor, missiles, and machine guns, while the driver sits on a phonebook surrounded by feces, rats, and gene shalet.
I know many will make the argument that our economies thrive on wars and military spending, but if we take the initiative to create jobs in environmental efforts and space travel/exploration we can see our economy flourish. I used to think space travel was ridiculous because its so god damn big, and almost pointless to find out whats out there. but the space program has given us a lot of helpful things (high tech plastics, smoke detectors, any cordless accessory or tool, satelites, tivo, navigation systems, medical imaging)
military spending: Just over $600Billion
I couldnt find the figures for space spending, but i know the US spent just over 5billion on space exploration last year, and only 28billion on environmental spending.
How can we justify spending less than 1/10th the military budget on the only inhabitable planet in the solar system? thats like building a bad-ass tank with armor, missiles, and machine guns, while the driver sits on a phonebook surrounded by feces, rats, and gene shalet.
I know many will make the argument that our economies thrive on wars and military spending, but if we take the initiative to create jobs in environmental efforts and space travel/exploration we can see our economy flourish. I used to think space travel was ridiculous because its so god damn big, and almost pointless to find out whats out there. but the space program has given us a lot of helpful things (high tech plastics, smoke detectors, any cordless accessory or tool, satelites, tivo, navigation systems, medical imaging)
