Why Space Exploration Is Worth the Cost 276
mlimber writes "The Freakonomics blog has a post in which they asked six knowledgeable people, Is space exploration is worth the public cost? Their answers are generally in the affirmative and illuminating. For example David M. Livingston, host of The Space Show, said: 'Businesses were started and are now meeting payrolls, paying taxes, and sustaining economic growth because the founder was inspired by the early days of the manned space program, often decades after the program ended! This type of inspiration and motivation seems unique to the manned space program and, of late, to some of our robotic space missions.'"
Yes. (Score:5, Funny)
Bringing back technology (Score:4, Funny)
OK so let's extend that... (Score:3, Funny)
Soooo... let's make Jane Fonda a budget item.
Re:The Late Carl Sagan's Argument (Score:3, Funny)
I'm pretty sure that Greece has telephones. They certainly have a country code assigned to them. I'm sure they built telephones there at some point in their history, even if now they just import them from countries with cheaper labor.