Petition to increase NASA's budget

[ussfletcher]

Saw this on reddit, and I thought many of you might be interested.

we petition the obama administration to:

At least double NASA’s annual budget to one penny for every government dollar spent.

On behalf of Penny4NASA.net:
Currently, NASA’s budget barely surpasses 0.5 percent of the Federal budget, and has seen a steady decline in the proportions of its funding, now reaching all-time lows. The cultural mindset brought on by NASA has allowed us to reap the benefits of economic growth, creating an influx of people wanting to become scientists and engineers.

https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/petitions/!/petition/least-double-nasa%E2%80%99s-annual-budget-one-penny-every-government-dollar-spent/WHRSzLRj

 

[zerocool84]

P&N ------->

 

[nageov3t]

no thanks

 

[AmdEmAll]

Signed

 

[KillerCharlie]

Forty years ago NASA was a different story, but now?

I'm an aerospace engineer and I interviewed at NASA, but during the interview I realized one thing - NASA is a government bureaucracy. I'm honestly not sure it's a good use of government money anymore.

 

[Gibson486]

Forty years ago NASA was a different story, but now?

I'm an aerospace engineer and I interviewed at NASA, but during the interview I realized one thing - NASA is a government bureaucracy. I'm honestly not sure it's a good use of government money anymore.

yeah, my friend did an internship there. He said you cannot turn a page without explaining why you did it.

 

[FoBoT]

Total Public Debt Outstanding == $15,579,852,946,457.64

 

[DesiPower]

Signed and facebooked it

 

[Triumph]

I'm all for balancing the budget but in this case, since it's something I care about, I think the extra money should be spent, and the money cut elsewhere. I believe that this is a logical choice and that everyone in the country should vote accordingly. That way we will all get money for our pet projects and everyone else will have to do with less in order to reduce our debt.

 

[sixone]

Please read this before you sign the petition.

 

[Lifted]

Any petitions to cut NASA's budget by 75%?

I'd create one myself but I'm just too busy.

 

[Jeff7]

Neil deGrasse Tyson helped sway me more toward being ok with manned spaceflight. It's good PR for science and engineering. People see crazy and cool projects like flying people to the Moon, and they want in on some of that, even if they won't get to help directly. They're still doing sciencey things though, and that works for them. In return, society gets rewarded with a bunch of people who have some idea of how our little snippet of the Universe works, and how we can use its basic properties to our advantage.

What we're stuck with now is a society that looks down on the sciences, believing that such pursuits are pointless wastes of resources.

Forty years ago NASA was a different story, but now?

I'm an aerospace engineer and I interviewed at NASA, but during the interview I realized one thing - NASA is a government bureaucracy. I'm honestly not sure it's a good use of government money anymore.

This is the unfortunate part.

 

[IGBT]

this is easy. De-fund the EPA and move it to NASA.

 

[Jeff7]

this is easy. De-fund the EPA and move it to NASA.

It's ok, the companies will regulate themselves just fine. They all care so very much about our health, just like they did during our industrial revolution. More runoff from your friendly neighborhood zinc smelting plant? Mmm, toxins just like mom used to make.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

this is easy. De-fund the EPA and move it to NASA.

..astroKOOK

 

[mnewsham]

I think increasing NASA's budget is a good idea if it brings back manned space flight. If all they use it for is satellites and more unmanned missions than no thanks, we need manned missions to get people interested in the sciences again and make them feel like they can be a part of this new manned space goal.

 

[lothar]

Only if the increase is offset by spending reductions elsewhere.

 

[bunnyfubbles]

Forty years ago NASA was a different story, but now?

I'm an aerospace engineer and I interviewed at NASA, but during the interview I realized one thing - NASA is a government bureaucracy. I'm honestly not sure it's a good use of government money anymore.

government already wastes too much money, so if its going to be wasted, I'd rather have it "wasted" on NASA

that being said I don't want to give the government more money, but if it means diverting the money from other pork that instead goes to NASA, I'm all for it.

 

[NFS4]

Do any of these petitions ever actually work?

 

[FoBoT]

Do any of these petitions ever actually work?

'work'?
hmmm....






no

 

[Train]

If it were a petition to give NASA a specific mission(s), which would THEN require a bigger budget, I might consider it.

But to give a large govt org more money just for the sake of giving it more money is probably the dumbest thing you could have come up with.

There's nothing worse than a bureaucracy that is looking for ways to justify its budget.

 

[Lifted]

'work'?
hmmm....






no

Thank God.

I was getting nervous. My taxes are high enough.

 

[God Mode]

Haha, no. If I was a contractor that sells $500 dollar hammers to the gov I would be all over it.

 

[ussfletcher]

Please read this before you sign the petition.

Looks good to me. They aren't funded particularly well for the gains that they provide. They were pioneers in water filtration, solar panels, materials engineering, plane deicing, freeze dried foods, and many other things.

Also, although robotic spaceflight isn't as cool as manned spaceflight, it certainly has its place. Some of the systems we are putting up now are more beneficial than a manned crew could hope to be, I.e. the mars science laboratory.

I think its funny when the budget topic comes up in debates with friends and family and I throw out the percentage that nasa receives, every one seems to think that it receives a much larger portion than it does.

 

[KeithP]

How about instead, we cut the Federal Budget in half thereby increasing NASA's percentage to a full 1% of the Federal Budget? Would that be okay?

-KeithP