Space Exploration

[Sy123]

The amount of money we are pouring out in massive amounts for our military budget that is largely necessary and superfluous could easily be put to use towards the research and development of space travel. This last missile barrage on Libya alone cost MILLIONS upon millions of dollars. Not every attack is necessary, and with just a small proportion of the military budget diverted to a space program, advancements would come much faster.

Why do that when instead the millions upon millions of dollars are given to people who needed. Lets have the world on a near level scale before we attempt something huge.

 

[VKCA]

Too much risk/too little reward/too expensive.

I thought the only reason we really started was because russia and america were having a dick waving contest, and when we got to MAD they just kept on funding space exploration because people had gotten used to it.