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Originally Posted by Zeus
How many lives have been saved by automobiles?
How bout electricity?
Or even Calculus?
Probably not many... If your short sighted to the point of thinking that NASA is a big tax payer joke then that's your own problem, but not every advancement or discovery in human history is about ''saving lives''. This on its own is not a huge deal, but what this mean's for the future and making possible different types of colonizations.... that has yet to be seen. Point is that we don't know how it will effect the future but it has the potential to be very important.
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Ok, now name something that was discovered or invented using TAX dollars?
All those you named were for OUR use. And ALL were either readily available or a direct result of free enterprise. I sure could use a car, a phone, an air conditioner and computer, but somehow I'm missing the part where moon rocks and moon water are helpful to us. We got bigger problems right now.
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Originally Posted by Captain Vlad
I have no idea. Possibly quite a few. NASA projects gave us a lot of modern firefighting gear, aircraft safety devices, and a bunch of other stuff they were forced to develop for Apollo, the shuttle, etc. I could find a list for you.
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Those would have been developed anyway. And by PRIVATE companies.