Give their budget to the IRS. Then they can get taxes from all the rich dicks that don't pay. Boom. Problem solved.

Because we’re wasting money on unnecessary wars.

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Few points: 1) The DoD didn’t lose money, they are not a company. They spend allocated money on defense. 2) what do you mean “they just lost $2T”? Their entire budget is 1/3 of that, so unless you mean “just” as in the last 3 years, and unless you count spending their budget as “losing” money, this makes no sense.

No, it's just not relevant. You're bringing up the entire Department of Defense budget, he's talking about a single project from a single arm of the DoD. You're changing the scope of his comment well beyond what it actually said.

Lmao glad I wasn't the only one

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That didn't even address the substance of my comment, let alone his. You're changing the scope of his comment to make your argument. That's not how it works.

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If the US reformed their healthcare system to one like Germany, they would be able to spend more, not less money on defense.

So far the US are the only Nation to make Outer Solar system probes.

You can say many things about it, but the US has done more for planetary science than the rest of the world combined.

Congress has been saying it for years. Artemis was created because they knew we were in a space race.

How is your comment more relevant, or relevant at all, to the post or his comment? He didn't say anything about the DoD or its entire budget. He said the U.S. Navy (only one part of the Department of Defense) spends more money maintaining decommissioned ships from WWII, than NASA's entire budget. Of course the entire DoD budget will be higher than NASA's, that's a no-brainer. But more is spent maintaining obsolete warships that do not, and very likely never will again, see active service, than on NASA.

Yeah, but it's the DoD...they just lost 2 trillion dollars, so giving them a bigger budget is like taking pellet guns away from kids and giving them flame-throwers instead. lmao Either way, get your popcorn, there's likely to be some entertainment soon.

*reaches for SPF 5000 sunscreen*

All that money could serve a universal healthcare plan but the Congress prefers Defense.

That said, watching the situation in Ukraine, I'm kindda happy DoD has a huge budget or I fear, eastern Europe would have fallen under Putin's rule a decade ago.

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What point are you trying to make? I'm struggling to understand the relevance of any of that info to the comment or post

Good. NASA should focus on exploring space. Not on some BS "climate change" studies that are useless.

EDIT: Give the money to SpaceX that can get more done at a quarter of the cost

Did you mean to reply to someone else? This has nothing to do with what I said

Ah yes, i forgot that that a bunch of senators can assemble and fly a rocket.