Posted by
Jason Cunningham on Thursday, July 26, 2007 7:39:23 PM
One of today’s Associated Press headlines: “NASA reports sabotage of space computer.” Turns out it really was sabotage, but to be honest, my first thought upon reading the headline was, “What you really mean is, ‘Yet another piece of NASA junk kicked the bucket.'”
That organization is such a waste of taxpayer money. Complain all you want about how much money is being spent on Iraq, but at least that money is going to a cause that most everyone agrees on (at a basic level): fighting terrorists. Public funds sent to NASA, on the other hand, enable American astronauts and Russian cosmonauts to play chess and drink vodka on a perpetually-broken space station.
Space exploration is great, a fascinating venture, but it should be funded privately, except in those cases where we can use NASA's expertise to improve our national defense.