Quote:
Originally Posted by SingleDad
Truely $160 Million is not that much when you look at the cost of other things... like maybe two B2 sleath bombers... 1/10 of nation health care... if you ask me NASA is under-funded and doing a real good job at it.
|
To be fair the Russians were able to keep a fairly vibrant space program going despite their country literally collapsing around them. It is impressive what they were able to do with dedicated employees on a shoe-string budget. Kind of reminds me of a joke:
When the US and the Soviet Union first went into space they noticed that their ball-point pens didn't work. Nasa's solution to the problem was to spend millions of dollars developing a pen that could write anywhere, in space, underwater, etc. The Russians used a pencil.
Quote:
|
like maybe two B2 sleath bombers
|
The bombers will always get the priority because of several reasons:
1.) They try to distribute production of the bombers and their components to as many different states as possible in order to put pressure on congressional members not to cancel the program. Cancel the program, you end up putting your constituents out of work and so they (and their families) will turn against you in the next election.
2.) The arms companies themselves will flood congress with campaign contributions as another method to ensure their project doesn't end up on the chopping block.