Billions for bailouts, but nothing for NASA???

**Lady's Human** · 10-28-2009, 10:16 AM

Let's try this one more time....

No (or reduced) NASA.........

No hospital room monitors

No MRI's

No CT scans

No microcomputers (At least highly improbable that they'd be available as consumer items)

A wide variety of high tech ceramics, plastics (Mylar), glass products.

No remote crop monitoring (Ya think people are hungry NOW?)

No weather satellites

No comms satellites

Cell phones? Nope.

cable TV? Nope. (no satellites for comms)

Fly by wire aircraft? nope (commercial aviation would be more expensive. Southwest Airlines $99 fares? Doubtful)

Composites? Nope.

and on, and on...........

and guess what? All those technologies and products EMPLOY PEOPLE!!!!!!!!!!

Better to give them jobs than handouts.

**Lady's Human** · 10-28-2009, 10:21 AM

Those overpaid nerds who crashed two one way probes into the moon? (Nice, BTW, heck of a way to show respect to people who drive the economy......those engineers create the tech you play with at home)

1) They're government employees. They probably aren't overpaid.

2) They were conducting crucial research. If there's water on the moon, it means less mass to carry aloft to go elsewhere in the solar system. If there's water up there, it open up the whole solar system to manned exploration at a much, much cheaper cost.