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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
Just one year
It would be AMAZING
Also,the mission to rescue the Swift telescope made news this week. Soon I'll be seeing a sign for a "Joe's Satellite Repair Service" shop right next to the local autobody shop. https://www.mos.org/article/space-news-deep-dive-saving-swif...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Up0LNTMPnjI Pegasus to the Rescue: 'The Edge of Feasibility' (Alexander the ok)
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Can we really accelerate any probe to faster than 1% c? Or 2% c?
I think the idea is tic-tac sized probes with nano circuitry (that doesn't exist yet) accelerated by lasers so they don't have to carry the power source Obviously stopping is the problem, they can never stop but at some point no need
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The military budget is a jobs program that also keeps a (near bare minimum) level of industrial capacity afloat. Its why no politician left or right is really interested in cutting it. If you browse open contracts, you'll see they that they overwhelmingly buy rather banal things and spend comparatively little on the "killing people" parts.
Great. Can we change it to just be the non killing part for a few years until the bad project ideas fully die off?
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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.
1 - They are also useless by themselves, any rule that actually tells you something will have exceptions.
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Great. Can we change it to just be the non killing part for a few years until the bad project ideas fully die off?
If anything, we've been letting the killing parts languish dangerously for decades - to the point where we may not be able to defend our allies in a serious conflict.
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That's where we got a whole lot of dams in the American West!
Last that I checked, you guys could use some more trains.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_rail_tran...
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If anything, we've been letting the killing parts languish dangerously for decades - to the point where we may not be able to defend our allies in a serious conflict.
As proven so well during this whole debacle in the Hormuz strait.
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Great. Can we change it to just be the non killing part for a few years until the bad project ideas fully die off?
If anything, we've been letting the killing parts languish dangerously for decades - to the point where we may not be able to defend our allies in a serious conflict.