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yeah, great, 'Why isn't NASA doing more about this?' Let's blame an underfunded agency whose government won't give them enough to accomplish what they ask of them (remember how we're suppose to go to mars sometime?). NASA is doing great things with little funding it has, so let's not forget how expensive space travel/exploration/intra-sol magic really is. The agency is pretty much controlled in what it does by government directives, how can we blame them for not being able to pursue every space plan?

Plus this article sure does a number on statistical fallacies, 'Even if space strikes are likely only once every million years, that doesn’t mean a million years will pass before the next impact—the sky could suddenly darken tomorrow'

Yeah, great, fear-mongering space object impacts. Remember people: you could win the lottery tomorrow. But you won't.




Each shuttle flight costs $1B.

How do you justify even a single one?


> NASA is doing great things with little funding it has, so let's not forget how expensive space travel/exploration/intra-sol magic really is.

How much of that expense is self-inflicted?




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