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halman:<br />Of course, we could spend that on solving problems here at home, which we are currently doing with several hundred billion every year. That extra 4 billion would certainly turn the tide in eliminating poverty, wiping out AIDS, and fighting illiteracy.<br /><br />Me:<br />Your right, it could go to all those worthy causes...but it won't. After all, what happened to the untold billions left from the NASA cuts of the early 1970s? NASA budgets were 2 to 4% GDP until 1973-74 when they were hacked to the present level of about 1% GDP. Where did the savings go?<br /><br />If I were askold and Nyarlathotep or anyone else who is against NASA human spaceflight spending. I'd be asking the government to guarantee that NASA cuts would be directed towards the fixing of earthly problems seeing how that didn't happen on the first round of cuts spanning what...three plus decades? <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><strong>My borrowed quote for the time being:</strong></p><p><em>There are three kinds of people in life. Those who make it happen, those who watch it happen...and those who do not know what happened.</em></p> </div>