The military budget is a jobs program that also keeps a (near bare minimum) level of industrial capacity afloat.
Its why no politician left or right is really interested in cutting it. If you browse open contracts, you'll see they that they overwhelmingly buy rather banal things and spend comparatively little on the "killing people" parts.
What do you think NASA is? NASA is so expensive because it's a jobs program. There's no other reason for Boeing to have factories in so many states for building satellites.
They published an official press release on this on the 22nd.
https://rocketlabcorp.com/updates/victus-haze/
Good spot by whoever noticed it!
Can we swap the US Military and NASA budgets for just one year please?
Just one year
It would be AMAZING
Or even what we fund Israel's 2/3 of all their weapons are bought by US
We'd have 10% speed of light probes going outside of solar system already
Well at least Nancy Grace Roman L2 Telescope is launching, hope it goes perfectly
The military budget is a jobs program that also keeps a (near bare minimum) level of industrial capacity afloat.
Its why no politician left or right is really interested in cutting it. If you browse open contracts, you'll see they that they overwhelmingly buy rather banal things and spend comparatively little on the "killing people" parts.
Great. Can we change it to just be the non killing part for a few years until the bad project ideas fully die off?
What do you think NASA is? NASA is so expensive because it's a jobs program. There's no other reason for Boeing to have factories in so many states for building satellites.
OK so maybe they're both jobs programs, but .mil is bigger and employs more people (almost certainly at a lower per capita cost).
In 2024, the average American spent about $17,000 on taxes. Nearly $4000 of that went to the DoD, about $3500 went to interest on federal debt.
I think it’s fun to think about it in this way. I personally spend hundreds of dollars a month on war.
You have a source to share for that framing of the tax spend?
Can we really accelerate any probe to faster than 1% c? Or 2% c?
We have the physics but not the engineering. See the Breakthrough Starshot project for instance
Yes, with lasers or nuclear energy