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Many Americans think NASA returning to the moon is a waste of time and it should prioritize asteroid hunting instead, a poll shows (www.businessinsider.com)
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Many Americans think NASA returning to the moon is a waste of time and it should prioritize asteroid hunting instead, a poll shows::Americans like NASA, but don't support their funding going towards moon missions, according to new polls.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I remember a TED talk that sold me on big science: For every dollar we spent on the moon shots, we made fourteen.

The thing is, going to the moon involved doing a lot of development, and this time we're going to the moon better and are going to do more things.

At some point we'll want to put a colony up there, and will need still more development to make it work.

A lot of the technology that we use today was developed thanks to the space race. In fact, when the USSR was taking its victory laps for Sputnik, Eisenhower freaked out, signed the National Aeronautics and Space Act and then extended a grant to Fairchild Semiconductor which started the digital revolution in Silicon Valley, eventually propelling us into the cyberpunk dystopia of smart refrigerators and zombie bot-nets that we know today.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

And wa- was that a good thing?