The amount the U.S. military spends annually on air conditioning in Iraq and Afghanistan: $20.2 billion, according to a former Pentagon official.

That's more than NASA's budget. It's more than BP has paid so far for damage from the Gulf oil spill. It's what the G-8 has pledged to help foster new democracies in Egypt and Tunisia.

http://www.npr.org/2011/06/25/137414...r-conditioning

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cristopher columbus was an astronaut of his time...what a fucking waste of money sending ships over half the world to visit some primitive natives and bring back stupid shit like potato...

man it cost an arm and a leg to send ships in to the un-known...what did CC have to show for his trip? stupid shit like plants and a map :1orglaugh



@garce

"Every free country on the face of the Earth owes its freedom to The United States of America."

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I was about to say this !

But we won't need to move until a few hundred (even thousands) years. We'll be long dead but it's something the human race WILL have to do as the sun gets bigger and bigger and earth warms up.

We won't be able to live on earth forever sadly.

The first trillonaires will be made out of the space market, that's for sure

If you do not already understand why NASA is important enough to spend money on then no amount of explaining will clarify the subject for you. It does not make someone less intelligent to lack that curiosity but the lack of it definitely impedes their ability to understand the motivation of those of us who strongly desires more exploration.