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Obama did not bargain for these cuts, he came up with them all on his own. I want NASA's budget to be bigger.
PERIOD.
In response to Congresses proposal that even larger cuts be made...
See g5000's post that you responded to...
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Obama did not bargain for these cuts, he came up with them all on his own. I want NASA's budget to be bigger.
PERIOD.
true, but completely not the point. The point was about NASA budgets getting cut, and private industry taking over. Well, the only thing private industry is taking over from NASA is the ferry duties for crew and supplies to ISS. That's it. Oh, and satellite launches as well. Anything NASA was working on other than those two areas is over for the foreseeable future, as private industry is not getting involved in the moon, mars, etc.
I am all for and heartily support ANY area private industry steps into in space. However, there role is currently limited... and speculative.
I expect rdean will come in here and blame Bush, but the rest of us can call up our congresscritters and let them know we support NASA.
FACT: NASAs total budget is less than 1% of the Federal spending. Way less than 1%. FACT: The proposed fiscal year 2013 budget out of the White House has huge cuts to NASA. Planetary sciences alone has $300 million slashed from it.
FACT: If this cut stays in the budget, NASA will have to pull back from some big and exciting planetary missions. Its already made NASA back out of an agreement with the European Space Agency on two ambitious Mars probes.
FACT: This sucks. A lot. America leads the way in scientific planetary missions, and this cut will hurt that, significantly.
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true, but completely not the point. The point was about NASA budgets getting cut, and private industry taking over. Well, the only thing private industry is taking over from NASA is the ferry duties for crew and supplies to ISS. That's it. Oh, and satellite launches as well. Anything NASA was working on other than those two areas is over for the foreseeable future, as private industry is not getting involved in the moon, mars, etc.
I am all for and heartily support ANY area private industry steps into in space. However, there role is currently limited... and speculative.
OK.
What else has NASA done in the past 30 years besides the above?
What were the Space Shuttles used for, if not for "ferry duty".
Is there a spaceship on the launch pad ready to go to Mars at the moment?
I have always supported NASA. Maybe you should stop trying to fit me into your neat little box and have an opinion of your own for once in your life.
In that case, I'm assuming that you're even more angry at the GOP house that proposed even larger cuts in NASA than those Obama bargained for?
Obama did not bargain for these cuts, he came up with them all on his own. I want NASA's budget to be bigger.
PERIOD.
Obama did not bargain for these cuts, he came up with them all on his own. I want NASA's budget to be bigger.
PERIOD.
In response to Congresses proposal that even larger cuts be made...
See g5000's post that you responded to...
true, but completely not the point. The point was about NASA budgets getting cut, and private industry taking over. Well, the only thing private industry is taking over from NASA is the ferry duties for crew and supplies to ISS. That's it. Oh, and satellite launches as well. Anything NASA was working on other than those two areas is over for the foreseeable future, as private industry is not getting involved in the moon, mars, etc.
I am all for and heartily support ANY area private industry steps into in space. However, there role is currently limited... and speculative.
OK.
What else has NASA done in the past 30 years besides the above?
What were the Space Shuttles used for, if not for "ferry duty".
Is there a spaceship on the launch pad ready to go to Mars at the moment?
You mean the planets that were put out there as a joke by the christian god to fool us all into thinking the universe is older than 6000 years?
You mean somehow putting space exploration in the hands of private industry instead of the lowest possible bidder at a time when our government has earthbound problems to deal with is somehow more hateful of science than integrating blatantly false religious ideas about the universe that have no scientific reality by definition because they depend on faith and not knowledge? Did your brain spontaneously evaporate?
The Republican party has taken a definitive stance as the anti-science, and anti-education party. They want to put the christian bible as our children's science class. They want to ban stem cell research that could help many lives and create jobs. They feel that people with no medical background should be in charge of making health decisions for the only members of the human race that can reproduce. They think Geology is a scam made to usurp the teachings of the church. They want to cut our education budgets further and destroy the department of education. They deny pollution despite it being clearly visible to the naked eye. they think dumping millions of gallons of oil into the gulf was perfectly safe. There is even scientific evidence that the republicans are less intelligent on average than the people who believe in other parties. You people even think fox news is real news.
If there is an enemy of science and knowledge it most certainly is the faith based republican party who has a major belief that the human race was cursed by god from eating from the tree of knowledge. Putting the republicans in charge of science is exactly like putting the SS in charge of jews.
In that case, I'm assuming that you're even more angry at the GOP house that proposed even larger cuts in NASA than those Obama bargained for?
Obama did not bargain for these cuts, he came up with them all on his own. I want NASA's budget to be bigger.
PERIOD.
"How will increasing NASAs budget help reduce our debt?" You big government types are all the same.