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[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago (5 children)

The US has given 4 times that to Ukraine. That's 2/3rds the budget of NASA.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 10 months ago (2 children)

That's actually surprising that NASA only has 50% more budget than a single particle accelerator, given the huge number of cutting edge projects NASA is working on.

[–] Necromnomicon 12 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Only about half a penny of every federal tax dollar goes to NASA.

[–] uis 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

This is one-time vs recurring payment

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

That's why I compared it to 44x the initial jwst budget

[–] psycho_driver 20 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Money spent fighting a morally justifiable war with Russia that we aren't actually having to fight is money well spent IMO.

[–] daellat 11 points 10 months ago

They have mostly given stuff they weren't going to use anymore worth that amount when bought new.

[–] psmgx 8 points 10 months ago

How many people has the moon killed? Cuz Russia has killed tens of thousands. They've lost on the order of 250k of their own guys, and probably inflicted roughly the same numbers on the AFU.

The moon doesn't kill old ladies sitting in their apartment.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

This initial budget estimate is 44x the 500M initial estimate of the jwst for comparison. Jwst eventually ballooned to 20B, but I'm guessing this would similarly balloon over time as well.