A Rant Against NASA Haters

I know a lot of people are going to hate me for saying this, and some people are probably going to like me for saying this, but I'm not saying this for any of those reasons. I don't want attention, I just want to say what I've been dying to say for a long time now. So, here goes.

To everyone who says NASA is a waste of tax money and that that money should be used for better things, like the military, the U.S. government spends just over half of one percent of it's budget on NASA. That means, when you pay your taxes, NASA costs you half of one cent. The overblown amount of money the military gets, however, is twenty-two percent of the U.S. government's budget.

To everyone who says that NASA doesn't contribute to society in any way, try living your life without microelectronics, GPS, scratch-resistant lenses, anything cordless (cell phones, cordless power tools, handheld vacuum cleaners, etc.), memory-foam mattresses and head cushions, ear thermometers, household water filters, shoe insoles, long-distance telecommunication devices, adjustable smoke detectors, safety grooving on pavement, LASIK surgery, satellite-informed weather forecasts, athletic sneakers, UV sunglasses, or laptops, to name a few. Yeah, I don't think it would be fun either. Plus, they recently invented a 3D printer that prints food.

To everyone who says that we shouldn't be focusing on space exploration, and instead trying to fix problems here, are you serious? I'm not going to sugar coat this. We are almost done completely destroying the Earth. We have done so much damage to the planet, that we can't fix it. We can't refreeze the polar ice caps, or bring all the coral we've damaged and the billions of species of sea creatures that live in it back to life, we can't siphon all the extra Greenhouse Gasses out of the air, or reverse Global Warming, we just can't! Space programs are the only government programs that can save mankind. I'm not saying that we should just dry up all of a planets resources and then move on, I'm just saying that we've gone too far to bring the Earth back. Plus, what would have happened if Columbus had never come to the Americas? Think about it.

And no, I'm not an overly patriotic American, I'm Canadian. Does that count for something?

Now that I've gotten that off my chest, (and hopefully turned some skeptics into believers) I'll see you all next time.