brooklynmutt answered your question: At the risk of sounding quite ignorant….
good question. but cutting space exploration means cutting science programs. how about cutting corn farm subsidies first.Hmmm I didn’t think about it that way… Perhaps the money would better be spent on science programs geared on creating treatments and cures for high incidence diseases in India, or to develop more sustainable infrastructures?
And I can’t comment on the subsidies because I need to read more about them ;)
i definitely don’t have all the answers, that is for sure. but steering money away from science is a slippery slope. we don’t spend enough on science as is. also, try to check out the doc “king corn” you will be amazed (ha maze, no semi-pun intended) if you don’t already know about the unhealthy, unnecessary expense that corn has on our country.
