kickstarting space projects is actually not a bad idea.
This actually makes a great deal of sense.
But they could crowdfund the captain's chair.
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If every single person on earth would have contributed 10$ to NASA, it would still make only a rather small difference. Space projects are costly. People don't seem to be able to grasp the relevent orders of magnitude. NASA already has funding on par with that of some (relativley poor) govrenments in the world. Any realistic Kickstarter will not make any impact.
It might be worth a shot, but I highly doubt that projects needing double digit billions for funding are achievable with kickstarter...
edit: spellchecked
That's the other side of it, that I forgot to mention.
Maybe they just need help from this guy.
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Folks don't bother, this is yellowdingo who also posted a petition that the United States should nationalize the female population of the planet. And that was among his more rational ones.
That being said, what you CAN do kickstarters for are those small projects that can be designed for those prefab containers NASA makes available for experiments that can be hitchhiked on space missions.
That's right, belittle this with bigotry - Doesn't matter that a private company used crowd-source funding to put a telescope in space.
That's right, belittle this with bigotry.
It's dreadful the way the reality-influenced people are so prejudiced against ideas such as this one, yes.
If every single person on earth would have contributed 10$ to NASA, it would still make only a rather small difference.
That's a bit of an exaggeration. NASA's 2013 budget was about 18 b-for-billion dollars, an amount that's been roughly constant since 2008. If everyone on the planet contributed $10, that would be about $70 billion, almost four years worth of funding. While you're right that NASA's budget is on the same order of magnitude of some national governments, the governments that we're talking about are Uzbekistan and Serbia.
Even if we restricted our attention to US residents only, if everyone in the States gave $10 to NASA, this would result in a 16% increase to their budget.
The problem isn't with the costs of space travel, but with public disinterest. It would be much easier simply to get Congress to vote more money for NASA; rather than wasting time with this rather silly petition, simply persuade your friends and relations that NASA needs more tax money.
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If every single person on earth would have contributed 10$ to NASA, it would still make only a rather small difference.That's a bit of an exaggeration. NASA's 2013 budget was about 18 b-for-billion dollars, an amount that's been roughly constant since 2008. If everyone on the planet contributed $10, that would be about $70 billion, almost four years worth of funding. While you're right that NASA's budget is on the same order of magnitude of some national governments, the governments that we're talking about are Uzbekistan and Serbia.
Even if we restricted our attention to US residents only, if everyone in the States gave $10 to NASA, this would result in a 16% increase to their budget.
The problem isn't with the costs of space travel, but with public disinterest. It would be much easier simply to get Congress to vote more money for NASA; rather than wasting time with this rather silly petition, simply persuade your friends and relations that NASA needs more tax money.
Cut Military projects involving waging war abroad and redirect that trillion dollars a year into NASA?
Cut Military projects involving waging war abroad and redirect that trillion dollars a year into NASA?If every single person on earth would have contributed 10$ to NASA, it would still make only a rather small difference.That's a bit of an exaggeration. NASA's 2013 budget was about 18 b-for-billion dollars, an amount that's been roughly constant since 2008. If everyone on the planet contributed $10, that would be about $70 billion, almost four years worth of funding. While you're right that NASA's budget is on the same order of magnitude of some national governments, the governments that we're talking about are Uzbekistan and Serbia.
Even if we restricted our attention to US residents only, if everyone in the States gave $10 to NASA, this would result in a 16% increase to their budget.
The problem isn't with the costs of space travel, but with public disinterest. It would be much easier simply to get Congress to vote more money for NASA; rather than wasting time with this rather silly petition, simply persuade your friends and relations that NASA needs more tax money.
That would be unlikely but possible. Which puts it leaps ahead of your crowdsourcing proposal.
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That would be unlikely but possible. Which puts it leaps ahead of your crowdsourcing proposal.Cut Military projects involving waging war abroad and redirect that trillion dollars a year into NASA?If every single person on earth would have contributed 10$ to NASA, it would still make only a rather small difference.That's a bit of an exaggeration. NASA's 2013 budget was about 18 b-for-billion dollars, an amount that's been roughly constant since 2008. If everyone on the planet contributed $10, that would be about $70 billion, almost four years worth of funding. While you're right that NASA's budget is on the same order of magnitude of some national governments, the governments that we're talking about are Uzbekistan and Serbia.
Even if we restricted our attention to US residents only, if everyone in the States gave $10 to NASA, this would result in a 16% increase to their budget.
The problem isn't with the costs of space travel, but with public disinterest. It would be much easier simply to get Congress to vote more money for NASA; rather than wasting time with this rather silly petition, simply persuade your friends and relations that NASA needs more tax money.
NASA is a public property - so its a remnant of 'commie government'. probably why it's funding was cut back - Anything public owned is being sabotaged from within.
NASA is a public property - so its a remnant of 'commie government'. probably why it's funding was cut back - Anything public owned is being sabotaged from within.
Er, thank you, no. The Pentagon is also publically owned....
