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Subject NASA Wasting More Money: Sending New Rover To Mars

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Do you realize how little NASA's budget is compared many, many other things? If you do the math it cost every american just barely over ONE DOLLAR in a year.

Should be complaining about he tons of money that gets wasted on so called drug trafficking.

People like the OP are ignorant because they don't even know what NASA has done for technology that doesn't even have anything to really do with space.
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bitch please I know more about NASA than you think I do

a NASA center operates not far from me...

I've seen our tax dollars at work...

Can you honestly tell me what the fuck sending a new mars rover will accomplish?

nothing... more shitty photoshoped photos of the arizona desert!
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If you think it's shitty photoshopped photos of the Arizona desert, then you don't know half of what you think you do about NASA.  NASA's Mars exploration missions have been incredibly successful.  Even forgetting for a second all that we've learned about Mars in the last couple of decades as a result, we've gone from barely being able to get a probe to orbit mars successfully, to having a working sky-crane system for lowering massive payloads onto the surface.  That kind of technological advancement is going to be universally useful in the future.

Let's say that in a few years time we find an asteroid that's on a collision course for earth.  Do you want a space program that is still actively engaged in designing more and more complex missions to explore other planets for a tiny fraction of the federal budget, or do you want a space program that is limited to putting up weather and GPS satellites at best?
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Original Message "The plan to design and build a new Mars robotic science rover with a launch in 2020 comes only months after the agency announced InSight, which will launch in 2016, bringing a total of seven NASA missions operating or being planned to study and explore our Earth-like neighbor.

The 2020 mission will constitute another step toward being responsive to high-priority science goals and the president's challenge of sending humans to Mars orbit in the 2030s."

[link to www.nasa.gov]

More tax dollars wasted...

I'm all for space exploration!

But do we NEED another mars mission?!

Come on! Do something useful with our tax dollars!

Come up with a colony or ship that can save the species if the GLP Effect quits working and we become truly doomed..

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