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Xenonight2

And saying that the Space Administration will be focusing on terrestrial sciences.



(To be fair, though, Obama did say he would do this in his campaign.)

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/...46,print.story

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MageMoa

Well done. He's doing a great job. GO DEMOCRATS, GO! lololol

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shadowsworn

and to be fair, NASA programs in general have been facing lots of cuts since before Obama came into office, no?

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Xenonight2

Yeah, it still makes me shake my head.

NASA as an agency has done an amazing amount of advancement of technology. They've done so much for our understanding the universe and the world we live in it's stupid.

Focusing on global warming? BS. There are plenty of government agencies researching that. NASA should do the stuff that NASA does best: space.

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IronyTaken

Well NASA will be decomissioning their space shuttle and be investing in private organizations for future flights.

That will save alot of money right there.

V-Opolis

shouldnt we get earth under control before we start lookin outside our habitat?Like my Geology teacher said, it doesnt matter how much space researc we do, if we cant live on earth long enough to do something with it, it wont matter.

IronyTaken

I am pretty sure earth will be here for billions of years to come.

Although not sure about the human race. If we did survive we would have split of and evolved into seperate species by then.

Xenonight2

Just curious but...

How do you feel about microprocessors?

Or... Hmm... You know, the satellites that let geologists research with precision the movement of the shifts of Earth plates? (I bet your geology teacher is pretty fond of that.)

NASA does far more than just pick up space rocks and look at super novas. They've raised the bar technologically in so many ways it's almost impossible to calculate just exactly how much they have affected history. Although you can do an economic measurement: over the course of NASA's history, every one dollar the U.S. government funded NASA has ended up in seven to eight dollars produced in goods. That's an 700% return from technological research going directly into the economy.

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Paladuck

Everyone knows that all modern technology was reverse-engineered from alien components from the crashed Area 51 saucer.

NASA schmasa.

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IronyTaken

But it is I who came from the future who traveled to the past and brought the alien technology here.