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You have a source to share for that framing of the tax spend?
Although not quite exact, here's spending data for 2024 ( https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/static-data/published-report... ) - about 14% of tax dollars went to defence, 0.14*17000=2380.
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What do you think NASA is? NASA is so expensive because it's a jobs program. There's no other reason for Boeing to have factories in so many states for building satellites.
OK so maybe they're both jobs programs, but .mil is bigger and employs more people (almost certainly at a lower per capita cost).
Which is a direct function of its budget not a function of what it does.
> (almost certainly at a lower per capita cost).
DoD is extremely expensive per job due to the longe term benefits, layers of bureaucracy, and sub contractors.
Can we swap the US Military and NASA budgets for just one year please? Just one year It would be AMAZING Or even what we fund Israel's 2/3 of all their weapons are bought by US We'd have 10% speed of light probes going outside of solar system already Well at least Nancy Grace Roman L2 Telescope is launching, hope it goes perfectly
In 2024, the average American spent about $17,000 on taxes. Nearly $4000 of that went to the DoD, about $3500 went to interest on federal debt. I think it’s fun to think about it in this way. I personally spend hundreds of dollars a month on war.
Or, put another way, you spend hundreds of dollars a month on not having to learn russian and live as putin's peasant.
Seems like a good deal to me.
Can we swap the US Military and NASA budgets for just one year please? Just one year It would be AMAZING Or even what we fund Israel's 2/3 of all their weapons are bought by US We'd have 10% speed of light probes going outside of solar system already Well at least Nancy Grace Roman L2 Telescope is launching, hope it goes perfectly
In 2024, the average American spent about $17,000 on taxes. Nearly $4000 of that went to the DoD, about $3500 went to interest on federal debt. I think it’s fun to think about it in this way. I personally spend hundreds of dollars a month on war.
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The US gives Israel $3.8B a year (and 2/3 of their weapons are _sold_ by the US not bought). The budget of Nasa is $25B. But by antisemite math and logic says we’ll get 10% light speed.
Being against military aid to Israel isn't necessarily antisemitic.
Can we swap the US Military and NASA budgets for just one year please? Just one year It would be AMAZING Or even what we fund Israel's 2/3 of all their weapons are bought by US We'd have 10% speed of light probes going outside of solar system already Well at least Nancy Grace Roman L2 Telescope is launching, hope it goes perfectly
In 2024, the average American spent about $17,000 on taxes. Nearly $4000 of that went to the DoD, about $3500 went to interest on federal debt. I think it’s fun to think about it in this way. I personally spend hundreds of dollars a month on war.
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Space sails are super low thrust though, even lower than my VASIMIR example - so will take even longer to reach the desired speed - though they have the advantage of not having to carry the complex and heavy engine I ignored that in the rough estimates anyway. So by the time they're theoretically close to the desired speed they'll be on the other side of the galaxy at least, even if it took millions of years to get t…
You can't use a solar sail for this, but if you use lasers, you can get a few newtons / GW of incident laser power. Sci-fi stuff but if you can make a very very light reflector that can somehow be cooled (microscopic IR dipoles come to mind), and a very very focused and powerful laser, you can go a long way. Not sure what the purpose of moving a thin metalized foil at a fraction of lightspeed would be, though :)
https://ia800108.us.archive.org/view_archive.php?archive=/24...
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In 2024, the average American spent about $17,000 on taxes. Nearly $4000 of that went to the DoD, about $3500 went to interest on federal debt. I think it’s fun to think about it in this way. I personally spend hundreds of dollars a month on war.
Funny how people complain about federal debt, when the people complaining benefitted the most from the system. It is your children who will be paying the interest, while the older folk enjoyed a heated economy with high government spending. Economics is just as fundemental as physics. There are conservation laws that cannot be violated. However you can make other people hold the bag.
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In 2024, the average American spent about $17,000 on taxes. Nearly $4000 of that went to the DoD, about $3500 went to interest on federal debt. I think it’s fun to think about it in this way. I personally spend hundreds of dollars a month on war.
> I personally spend hundreds of dollars a month on war. Or, put another way, you spend hundreds of dollars a month on not having to learn russian and live as putin's peasant. Seems like a good deal to me.