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NASA’s Mars Sample Return mission is dead

456 points · 391 comments · Muhammad523

  1. q_andrew · · focus · HN ↗
    This is so disappointing. The closest thing we ever discovered to life on other planets and the US won't even put 0.5% of budget towards retrieving it.
    1. carabiner · · focus · HN ↗
      We cannot cancel anything ever because each program is only 0.001% of the federal budget. To do so would be stingy.
      1. sophacles · · focus · HN ↗
        Or we could look at the utterly stupid things, like maybe stop having a failed war in Iran, and just not pay for those? Thats a very big chunk of budget. As a bonus it would bring gas prices down, reduce future spending in VA and other combat veteran costs, and just possible help make the case for reducing the size and expense of our military (while still maintaining the 2 largest air forces in the world).
        1. drstewart · · focus · HN ↗

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