When will they start to receive a decent amount of funding?
>>55401947
Well last time it was during the cold war...and guess what's coming soon xd
>>55401947
Its tough to say.
If there is one thing about Hollywood these days, it's that they've been putting out a ton of plebeian realistic sci-fi films, and fedoras are rabid NASA nerds.
>>55401947
When they find the aliens, which will be never at this rate. Their funding will go up 20 fold.
>>55403237
I think if they found aliens, they'd probably kill off everyone involved, so they couldn't talk about it.
>>55403237
>Their funding will go up 20 fold.
Oh wow. 20x nothing is still nothing.
>>55404187
Doesn't NASA take in half a percentage of America's annual federal spending? Twenty times that would make it ten percent, that's a shit ton of money, Anon.
>>55401947
When there's a point to space travel.
>>55404470
Meanwhile, about half of it goes to blowing people up. Does that sound right to you?
>>55403237
This. If Nasa got a picture of an alien structure or a fucking space cockroach on planets 2B424. Money would move fast.
>>55401947
No anon, that money needs to be spent on pointless wars and feeding 3rd world moochers.
America can't into space anon, it's 2015. Come on!
>>55401947
Once Russia and China don't constitute serious military threats to the safety and well being of the American public. Only then will federal money for basic research will be increased.
>>55404187
>>55401947
>>55401947
>When will they start to receive a decent amount of funding?
Never. Our astronauts will continue to hitch rides on the Soyuz until China and India has spacecraft worth hitching rides on, too. Then they'll hitch on those as well.
The Higgs Boson was discovered on the border between Switzerland and France. The Germans are kicking our collective ass in alternative energy. The cutting edge of cancer research is now in Italy. Genetic engineering is moving to countries with less restrictive regulations. But, we do imprison a larger percentage of our population than any other nation on earth, so we're still Number One in that regard.
Donald Trump's slogan is "Make America Great Again."
>Again.
Raise your hand if you caught the implication that it's not anymore. And don't hold your breath.
when they stop wasting what they do get
>>55401947
It has more than enough funding... the main problem right now is simply that Congressional mandates force them to use overpriced, inefficient cost-plus contracts with defense contractors for like 95% of all their shit so it ends up spending like 2-3 times what it needs to on everything.
>>55404615
>>55404123
>>55403237
>implying we don't already know about aliens
>implying NASA doesn't scrub evidence from photos all the time
REPTILIANS OUT REEEEEEEE
Space exploration is a waste of time and money. We should all be focused what's going on HERE on Earth, the world God designed for us. He never intended humanity to venture out into the universe.
NASA don't deserve the funding, its glory days are over.
Any money you give it is just going to go to promoting diversity in tech' and stupid shit like that.
You'd be better off just giving fat wads of no-strings taxpayer money to guys like Burt Rutan and Elon Musk.
>>55401947
Once it's possible to extract ressources from asteroids / moons / planets in the solar system, expects everything to be Space related.
>>55404955
Asteroid-mining will be retardedly lucrative.
>>55405100
We'll never get the cost down to where the resources are more valuable than the fuel it takes to retrieve them until we get beyond chemical rockets, and we aren't going to do that because the research is too expensive. Shit like the Manhattan Project and NASA is pure socialism. Fuck that shit.
And fuck science. It's a pack of lies anyway. I ain't related to no prime ape. The earth is six thousand years old. The Bible says so. Humans and dinosaurs walked the earth at the same time. Fossils were put there by Satan to confuse us. The pyramids were for storing grain.
Leave science to them there godless foreigners in... you know, other places. It never was worth a maggoty cowflop anyhow.
Wow. My IQ dropped 40 points as I wrote that post.
Let's make America great again!
>>55401947
I wouldn't be willing to fund NASA
When they prove the moon landing wasn't just filmed in hollywood
>>55405827
>>55405995
I don't know whether you're trolling or retarded.
Aside from all the other ways that idiotic meme has been debunked, do you think the Russians couldn't track the location of our spacecraft by its radio emissions? And do you think they wouldn't have laughed so loud we could have heard them across the oceans if they had smelled a rat?
They collected rocks there too, you know. They used unmanned spacecraft. We've swapped samples. They've verified the authenticity of ours, and vice-versa. You suppose we were secretly using unmanned spacecraft, too? Holy shit! It was a conspiracy to do... somethin'.
Why do you suppose we built a spacecraft prop as ugly as a lunar module? And staged a disaster on Apollo 13? Why didn't we build a cool, sleek prop that resembled something science fiction fans had come to expect? Rockets that didn't need all those clumsy, expensive stages?
That anyone entertains the idea for even half a second that the moon landings were faked is proof of how incredibly stupid Americans have become.
