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For the first time in 51 years, NASA is training astronauts to fly to the Moon (arstechnica.com)
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[–] [email protected] -5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I get that this is really cool and I love space too, learning about it is great.

But is this really what we should be spending our limited resources on?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The US has virtually unlimited resources, they just usually choose to spend them on military and corporate subsidies.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I meant as a planet, not country

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Space research can help us make better use of resources

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

US prints the reserve money of the world. They basically have unlimited resources. This is better than money spent to kill midlle easterns