Thursday, 2 November 2017

5 Incredible Advances Science Could Buy With The Government's $600B Military Budget

5 Incredible Advances Science Could Buy With The Government's $600B Military Budget

The United States spends more on military spending than the next ten nations combined: an estimated $600 billion annually. Meanwhile, the entire budgets of NASA and the National Science Foundation, combined, is only ~$25 billion, or about 4% of our military budget. Many astronomers, astrophysicists, engineers, and scientists of all persuasions dream of the benefits that mild increases to their budgets could bring, but these are tiny, incremental dreams.

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