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Originally Posted by chaze
And why are they doing this? Costing us hundreds of millions for what result?
NASA is a fricken sponge, they need to be regulated for specific tasks not all this experimental money pit junk.
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Without Nasa, you wouldn't have Satellite TV, GPS, Google Earth, Artificial Limbs, Dialysis, MRI and CAT Scans, Breast Cancer Screening (which uses technology originally developed for the Hubble Space Telescope), Ear Thermometers, Concrete Grooves in roads (really!), Freeze dried food, Scratch resistant lenses, Cordless power tools, etc.
Don't forget it also made weather monitoring possible which today saves thousands of lives every year by accurately predicting the path and intensity of hurricanes.
And of course, it got Man to the moon, sent robots to Mars, orbiters to various planets, is looking for life on Jupiters moons like Europa with space ship Galileo (which on Nov 16th they announced that they think they have found LIQUID WATER ON EUROPA, and has sent space ships completely out of our solar system (Voyagers 1 and 2).
Just 2 days ago Nasa launched Curisoity, a new robot to Mars.
Etc, etc.