NASA's 2.3 billion dollar Mars Science Laboratory, plagued with cost overruns, delays, and broken parts, apparently is supposed to test whether Mars may have been habitable in the past.That's right: 2.3 billion dollars to find out if Mars could possibly have harbored life in the past.
Is there anyone, anywhere, who can give me a well-thought out explanation for why people cannot get clean water in Africa, and that water could be acquired for literally pennies per day per person, but we need to spend 2.3 billion dollars on a nuclear-powered titanium super-robot exploration rig to test if Mars may have had the potential to harbor life hundreds of millenia ago?
Please. I am sitting here shaking my head in rage that my hard-earned tax dollars are being funneled to Boeing and Friends to build a completely pointless robot instead of doing actual good like helping the needy or paying for body armor for soldiers who keep me safe.
Although I love tech, and ironically believe unmanned exploration of the solar system and galaxy is the only feasible way to go, pumping billions of tax dollars into a project whose sole purpose is to possibly turn a question mark into a period seems like a lot of people have their heads in the wrong place, or should I say up the wrong place. And a significant number of those people happen to be administrators at NASA.
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