To make it clear, it is not being contended that NASA does not help people, what is being said is that its usefulness is not greater than its uselessness. NASA is not useless however, but it is a waste of money. Its annual budget is $18.724 billion, that is a huge amount of money being wasted just for space exploration, other ambitious search for other planets and signs of life, and other useless things. That money could have been used for more urgent needs such as food for the hungry people, medicines for the sick people, books and classrooms for students, infrastructures, and other things that are more important and useful to humans.

The money used for NASA's various ventures is nothing short of unjustified when looked at from the perspective of the issues we have here on planet earth that remain unresolved. I'm not suggesting that NASA's undertakings are entirely pointless, but as it stands currently, we can't afford to invest such amounts of money into precarious, low payoff enterprises such as NASA. It is money that could be far better spent on medical research.

Anyway, that's my rant. Space exploration should be privatised. Anyone agree/disagree?

I tried to start my own server but I didn't know what I was doing and my mom yelled at me for eating all the internet.

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