this post was submitted on 22 Sep 2023
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As Douglas Adams put it: most people where only concerned with the movement of small green pieces of paper. The amount of small green pieces of printable paper is completely and utterly irrelevant in comparison to the next milestone mankind can achieve and must achieve to survive. (My personal, admittedly strong, opinion of course)
It would be cool if NASA's budget was raised, but in the meantime we have to deal with the reality that a flagship mission going way over budget takes money away from other programs.