FWIW I enjoyed the video.
Since NACA?NASA has never received mre than about 1 cent of every tax dollar every spent since its inception I think it is entirely probable that the banl bail outs have totaled far more than the space agency has ever spent. The total budget this year is something less than 10 billion....even if the budget had ALWAYS been that high ( and it hasn’t been) since NACA came around in the 40s that would be at most 70 years which would put the tool at around 700 billion. That is way more than they have spent ( or has been budgeted because my numbers are based on the current budget—— which come to think of it is more like 7 or 8 billion)
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I agree that our dreams have been lost there, but I think a lot of that happened when the agency was hijacked for political purposes and lost sight of what in the public eye had been its mission...as trite as it sounds...
"To boldly go where no man has gone before..."
NASA fully embraced Affirmative Action and is full of minorities that are doing little except drinking coffee and reading web pages. They are not the best and brightest at all and will not be going back to space anytime soon without Russian help. The agency should be dissolved, it is a 100% loss now.
*if every person on earth paid 1 penny we would have a 3billion dollars for nasa*
*it would actually be like 7 billion with all the people that we have on earth*
....and THAT my FRiends, is why the dream is lost!
It takes money to make money, and unless you have some thing to sell, you will make no money.
The title speaks to you ... you no longer dream, instead settling ... for navel contemplation.
As people has said, since the 40’s we've spent at most 700B on space ad aeronautics ... that has produced most of the products we use everyday, in every walk of life - ROI: priceless.
You can no longer dream, can no longer take risks, can do nothing but say no.
To let dreams die because you are too shirt sighted and too weak to envision any future which does not encompass you in a warm cocoon is your lot in life, and the rewards you, your families, and children will reap in the future yet unborn.
Last I checked, you don’t need a government paycheck to dream. You don’t even need one to actually accomplish something in space either.