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[QUOTE]Originally posted by The_Tom: [QB] Much as I love the space sciences and all, I don't think you can call half a trillion dollars chump change just because greater amounts have been mis-spent in the past. The US Congress isn't "wasting" potential Mars money on ketchup-viscosity studies, it's spending public money on a variety of things with a variety of usefulness. 70 billion in agricultural subsidies, 2/3rds of which go to the wealthiest 10% of agribusiness? Waste. Writing off third world debts? Probably a hell of a lot more worthwhile. Rock #4 will still be around for the exploring in a century, if we really need to take that long to get our affairs in order on Rock #3. Let's go to Mars, sure. But Edmund Hillary logic shouldn't work when we're talking about enough money to feed billions people for their lifetimes. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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