has anyone heard what Obama gave NASA in his new budget? $1 billion dollars. Now that may sound like a lot of money to the average person here, but in the grand scheme of things it's nothing. He just announced a trillion dollars in new spending and in all of that he's only giving NASA an extra $1billion. Honestly it drives me insane. America has long been declining in the area's of science, and I feel that this just goes to show how they feel about space exploration. Almost none of that new money was set aside for manned spaceflight. As America is going through a tough economic time I think that one thing that would help a lot would be the creation of high tech jobs, and space exploration is the perfect way to get there. Ok I'm going to end my rant here for now, anyone else have any opinions? Or am I the only one who cares haha.

we know more about space than our ocean... we shouldnt give them more money, we know a lot we can take a break from it.

yeah, I think we've explored about %3 of the sea. theres more to gain from exploring the ocean like natural resources. lets face it theres wayyy cooler stuff in the ocean then in space like colossal squids and weird ass plants.

They only really cared about space when they had the competition of the Soviet Union. Personally, I'd rather explore space than the ocean, but I do agree that we should maybe focus a bit on our own planet before moving on, outside of it, more.

well why not both. what i'm getting at is more money needs to be spent on sciences, and less on building for the sake of building. I'm thinking if we have secure high tech jobs then the money will get passed through the system, creating even more jobs, in the same way that spending on infrastructure would, only these would be jobs that would advance society and our knowledge, instead of just having more roads.
I named nasa in particular because i am a huge fan of space, and i think we've become complacant. Our forefathers would be ashamed if they knew that we had the technology to colinize the moon and didn't do it. Humans have always prospered through exploration, whether it be leaving africa for europe, or leaving europe for the america's, we've always been pushing the edge. And now we're backing off. It bugs me a bit.

fact: humans have never been on the moon

NASA...I don't really care for Space exploration, they can have $1 billion, that's plenty. But, I will say NASA has started to expand from more than just space, so that's kind of cool. They do all sorts of science related stuff.

Everybody just wants more money, why not just give it to them. We're already broke anyways, what's another trillion dollars.

I really think that science in general could use a boost in funding. It should really be one of the most important things to our society, whether it's regarding climate change, space exploration, physics, chemistry or biology (ie. health, medicine, etc).

In my humble opinion, anyways.

I'm aiming for governor, wouldn't I be awesome?