To be fair, the US doesn't even have the money for any of the top 5 most expensive programs, that being medicare, medicaid, nuclear weapons, income security programs, and social security. Yes that is correct, the military doesn't make the top 5. Roughly 60% of the 'defense' budget is nukes.
Tbf, i feel like the us budget should go to soooo many things (schools, hospitals, social programs, public transit,...) but everything is better then the money wasted on the military. And it's double wasted as most money doesn't even fund the military, but just goes to make few dudes even richer
The US has a spending problem in and outside the military. We could save millions without military price gouging but we also need to focus on the inefficient spending we do in other sectors. Spending more on healthcare than other countries but not having access to affordable healthcare is a crime. The US has the money it just needs to not waste it
That's a good way of making certain that only the wealthy can ever hold a position of power in the government. The wealthy don't need a pay check. The ones who are like you and I do. Make it so they can't invest in the market.
The fact that you think they actually follow a budget is the problem. Look at their bank accounts. Why is mine smaller while people like aoc are magically worth 20 mil at least.
I used to work in a Congressional staff office. Make sure to CALL your member of Congress. The call tally sheets are delivered straight from the interns answering the phones to your representative. Emails are handled purely by staff.
The comments complaining have hundreds of likes. This comment that actually tells you the correct way to take action and do something about the issue only has 20 Shows you where everyone’s head is at in society
@@YOEL_44 Why should Congress deny NASA's own budget? It's a 2% increase from 2024, if we're pretending the right answer is to keep all NASA programs funded exactly how they were, are you proposing reducing NASA's budget? Or are we going to acknowledge that we're having this conversation without any of the context as to where NASA is trying to reallocate those funds to? Yet we should call our representatives and make our uneducated voices heard? I truly hope they ignore most of those calls.
Good job man! I wasn't aware they wanted to cut Chandra's budget. I'm going to research this more in depth and jump on the bandwagon and beg them to reconsider. If we each add our voice, the louder we become. The louder we become, the better our chances of being heard...
Money for bombs, but not for healthcare. Money for guns, but not for infrastructure. Money for war, but not for scientific study. America, are you great yet?
@@jakubrejzekjunior7349 The overwhelming majority of the technology we enjoy today is hand-me-down technology from military research labs, does the internet ring a bell? Military science is about 15 to 30 years ahead of civilian science and will continue to be the place where most technical advancements are handed down via patent sales.
@@jakubrejzekjunior7349 Generally it works the opposite way, military research discovers principle and application, that trickles down into civilian application. Things like rocketry and digital electronics are good examples.
@@robertm3329 the Internet is a child of the military. I agree that contractors are bleeding us dry and there is DEFINITELY corruption but we're funding most of NATO so we've put ourselves in a position that we can't get out of
If you count Florida State Congress they made it law that if you touch a kid under 12 they can give you the big sleep West Virginia has passed a law bumping their minimum marriage age to 18.
@Seducier I am not sure, but I know the military gave NASA two spy satellites more powerful than hubble, that NASA couldn't afford to make, to repurpose as observatories but NASA doesn't have the money to put them in space.... If you like infrared thermometers, phone cameras, foil emergency blankets, UV glasses, cordless power tools, folding laptops oh and fiber optics used in surgery daily... remember all those and many more life altering inventions came from our best national Research and Development NASA... as a reward get a smaller budget every year.
@@Seducier NASA released the results of its second agencywide economic impact report on Thursday, demonstrating how its Moon to Mars activities, investments in climate change research and technology, as well as other work generated more than $71.2 billion in total economic output during fiscal year 2021. Combined, NASA’s impact supported more than 339,600 jobs nationwide, and generated nearly $7.7 billion in federal, state, and local taxes throughout the United States. “Investment in NASA’s missions is an investment in American workers, American innovation, and American competitiveness for the 21st century. NASA is positioning our partners in commercial space and the national economy to win the future of spaceflight in 21st century as we prepare to return astronauts to the Moon, and then go on to Mars,” said NASA Administrator Bill Nelson. “While our work will always push the limits throughout the cosmos, it also strengthens the planet beneath our feet. NASA partners with small businesses, industry, academia, and other government agencies to address engineering challenges, and to transfer out our technologies, capabilities, and data all for public benefit here on Earth. NASA may be a small federal agency, but we punch above our weight, fueling growth in American industry with good-paying, quality jobs in all 50 states and maintaining our leadership in space and science.” The study found NASA’s Moon to Mars exploration approach generated more than $20.1 billion in total economic output and supported more than 93,700 jobs nationwide. For investments in climate research and technology, the agency’s activities generated more than $7.4 billion in total economic output and supported more than 37,000 jobs nationwide. Additional key findings of the study include: Every state in the country benefits economically through NASA activities. Forty-six states have an economic impact of more than $10 million. Of those 46 states, nine have an economic impact of $1 billion or more. NASA’s agencywide fiscal year 2021 economic output increased by 10.7% from fiscal year 2019, the year the agency conducted its first report. The agency’s Moon to Mars campaign, which includes the Artemis program, generated nearly $2.2 billion in tax revenue, and saw an economic output increase of 42.6% from fiscal year 2019. These activities provided about 28% of NASA’s economic impact. The agency’s investments in climate change research and technology generated nearly $810 million in tax revenue and provided 11% of NASA’s economic impact. NASA has more than 2,655 active domestic and international agreements for various scientific research and technology development activities in fiscal year 2021. The International Space Station is a significant representative of international partnerships - representing 15 nations and five space agencies and has been operating for more than 20 years. NASA has 700 different active partnerships with non-federal U.S. partners and partnerships in 44 of 50 states. For example, flight technology like NASA’s all-electric X-57 Maxwell. NASA spinoffs, which are public products and processes that are developed with NASA technology, funding, or expertise, provide a benefit to American lives beyond dollars and jobs. The agency has recorded more than 2,000 spinoff technologies since 1976. For example, NASA’s indoor agricultural techniques in vertical farm structures are being adopted by private companies to build indoor farms. Scientific research and development, which fuels advancements in science and technology that can help improve daily life on Earth and for humanity, enjoys the largest single-sector impact, accounting for 20% of NASA’s overall economic output.
Why do they insist on on changing things that don't need to be changed ?! Why nor cut 63 million dollars from money that can be sent to other countries ?!
Since repugs are offering no legislation and blocking everything else, don't worry about Chandra... worry about EVERYTHING not getting funded... cancer research, infrastructure repair, supporting our allies, veterans healthcare... by all means let's bitch and moan about 0.01% of people affected by transgender issues. Pffft
Yes exactly my thoughts. They’ve been catching a lot of footage on these satellites and during a time when we are so close to “disclosure” pretty much being forced on them finally (in addition to the souls within the US & all over the planet who are now awakening at different stages due to solar flares and the earths frequency rising) they know that we are paying attention now, doing our own research and understanding things as they are and always have been…of course they want to regain some control over us it just makes sense!! But that doesn’t mean we have to let them. I believe we need to take responsibility for our own country and unite peacefully & responsibly. ❤
Original NASA wasn't really about space travel as much as intercontinental missiles in the first place. Most nasa invented items eventually go to the military. Nasa and the military is linked way more than people even realize. Everything from satellites to Velcro.
@@alkeryn1700if you want to compare apple to apples, try to find the operational costs for F-16, and it looks this even worse. The operational cost of Chandra is even lower than the F-16.
probably most of them think like this. what scientist found in space they always make some kind of theory breakthrough in PAPER while war's need more weapon more bullet more supplier more buyer and that bring more money
@@CaseyTheAlpha Those technological innovations are not at all useful to anyone not in the military. I would be perfectly happy if there was never again military technological advancement
@@mr.dirtydan3338 Then log off the internet. Never use super glue. You like the radio and all the various things powered by radio waves? Gone like the wind with your cellphones, gps, rc cars, television, hell even wireless clocks and garage door openers. Modern day airplanes use a jet engine, this engine was created by Nazis. I mean the list can go on forever. Technological innovations are sparked by wars. Not just Military tech, all tech.
Fun fact, the entire apollo program (one of the most revolutionary and impressive endeavors in mankind) cost 100 billion dolllars over the course of 10 years, it cost the same as 2 months of the us military budget
Well technically can be considered a surveillance equipment in space. For any gamma ray event that can destroy all spaces equipment and even treating life existance on this planet. From super novas or even a Avance civilization. Activity. In space.
I love this, yet after having listened to Representative David Schweikert give addresses to the Speaker of the House (pro tem at that) surrounded by an empty room of congress, we're borrowing nearly $100,00 every second to fund gov't activity. Congress only gets to vote on something in the neighborhood of 26% within overall spending. Adding to that, 39 cents out of every tax dollar goes to paying back interest. We need to root out bad actors sending waves of lies wherever people can hear and read, force congress to enact policy that drives down Healthcare costs first, and get more wise people in votable seats in our govt to fix decades of inadequate action. Relinquishing the chains around our democracy is the road to getting funding in the right pockets.. pockets like this one.
It is not the taxpayers responsibility to pay for telescopes. Let the private sector do this. And while we are at it scale back ALL government spending .
@@trudilm3864yes they do for example india. You know what politicians did here? Cut the funding to the space programme. Last year was when the lunar landing took place, the same year (long before the mission) the current party in power cut the space programmes funding. And when the landing happened successfully, didn't wait a second plastering their own faces (not the faces of the scientists who worked on the mission) on posters advertising the success of the Indian space programme
They've spent TRILLIONS on trying to find "Life" on the moon since 1969. Never once staying 24 hours there. Next trip will be September 2025 at the cost of $4.1 BILLION. N.A.S.A. Numbskulls Astronomical Spending Allowance
I wonder what the long term plan for this is. I know the MIT lab that built Chandra is working on a new X-ray telescope, I suspect it is far from ready to replace Chandra though. I have the fortune of one of my wife’s relatives being a part of the MIT X-ray astronomy program and have toured their lab several times. There work is nothing short of fascinating!
@classicalAnime The only two options I see are to clear house completely (as in to not leave even a single incumbent, even in the Supreme Court) or to hit the reset button and perhaps try a different system.
@@lunavarion all I will say is that the founders, particularly Madison (who drafted the Constitution and the Bill of Rights), were extremely careful students of history, and were quite well aware about the consequences of hastily overthrowing government. Jefferson, writing in the Declaration of Independence said: (revolution) shall not be done for “light and transient causes”. And I’m sure everyone here wants to jump right away and say our current situation meets that threshold. And to that I say, study history.
@geo5873 Definitely not. Republics are nice on paper. In practice, though, they always seem like the ideal platform for corrupt, power-hungry individuals to claim power and become totalitarian. For examples, look at Rome and the current, American government.
The fact we have to ask, beg, or expect anything constructive involving congress is already an issue in and of itself. The fact they get paid at all or have any kind of merit is a joke.
They don’t give a damn about us in the least. They’ll all be dead of old age before the environment is damaged beyond repair or before the social security runs out. So they still get to run the country how they like it because they know they’ll be long gone before it even matters. The average age of a citizen in the U.S is 38.9 years old, it’s 58.4 for congress and 64.3 for Senators.
Congressmen don’t have very big salaries though. If you could find a way to skim it off their earnings from insider trading, then I might be for it. I don’t think you can actually do that though, and the idea of the federal government getting a cut of insider trading money makes me uneasy.
Rename Chandra to Chandler. Some US legislators might think Chandra does not sound western thus it might be a spy satellite so they cut its budget. 😂😂😂😂
Contracting is important as it allows for more competition, ensuring that we end up with the best available tech for defense. However we could cut down on a few things, I’m not sure what, but cutting politicians’ salaries is definitely on the top of my list
Just imagine if there was a World nation without need for military....uffff the amount of extra money we would have for science, technology and development😮😮😮😢...
USA: ok let’s spend 99% of our budget on the military because we don’t want a repeat of the time we spent all our budget on the military NASA: uhh, can we have a little money too? USA: NASA, You know how much money we’ve wasted in your silly mankind-progressing projects? No. We’re stopping this right now, 100% OF THE BUDGET TO THE MILITARY!
LORD, Creator of Heaven and Earth, wake Congress for us and help them balance the budget according to your will. You are the mighty God who created heaven and earth and all that is in them.
which is a tiny percentage of all the hundreds of tax dollars payed by Americans every year, but hey guess it's better spent increasing the salaries of congress ppl
Thats still tax money that’s not going to benefit those who are paying for it. The Cold War over, no more need for national projects to demonstrate America capable outside of shooting wars. Go back to how they use to be funded by either private funding or partnerships with business…
@@vanjamenadzer they're both for profit, and both for humanity. The space race resulted with lots good byproduct projects have made money, eg. Corelle dishes. Some wars are for-profit eg. Iraq, some wars are for survival, eg. Ukraine. I guess it all depends on which end of the gun you were on. Cheers!
@@user-sy7ld3zl3o Unfortunately, not entirely true. Space projects is more akin to an investment, and the advancements that come from it doesn't always translate into profit, though it is academically very important. War on the other hand... That's _immediately_ profitable. They just need to wave a tiny American flag and stir up some right-wing patriotism, and everybody goes nuts and never question why they're going to war.
Thank you for this! I have been working with Chandra data for several years now, including on some of the galaxies you showed. The science I, and many others currently do is not possible without Chandra. The current defunding of Chandra for no discernible reason is already a huge detriment to the scientific community, and our ability to investigate the most energetic events in the universe. And this is only going to get worse if Congress continues defunding it without considering any replacement.
I used to want to work for nasa but that dream died when I realized it was a part of government bureaucracy that’s subject to stupid decisions Edit this isn’t attacking anyone I just don’t like that the people in charge don’t fund the one thing their department is dedicated to
So people's money should be stolen from them in order to give you a toy you like to work with? Hell no. Go get a real job and stop defending government overreach.
"In the last quarter of 1979, the program cost of the U.S. F/A-18 aircraft increased by $5.1 billion, and the F-16 by $3.4 billion. Since their inceptions, significantly less has been spent on the unmanned planetary programs of both the United States and the Soviet Union than has been wasted shamefully - for example, between 1970 and 1975, in the U.S. bombing of Cambodia, an application of national policy that cost $7 billion. The total cost of a mission such as Viking to Mars, or Voyager to the outer solar system, is less than that of the 1979-80 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Through technical employment and the stimulation of high technology, money spent on space exploration has an economic multiplier effect." From the final chapter of Cosmos.
It has always upset me how little money goes into our space program. And look how much we can do with it already. They could double the budget and Congress wouldn't even feel it, it's one of our smaller expenses in the annual budget. It would have greta positive affects on all of science.
@@Jk-tp2llWe spend over 50% of our budget on the massive amount of corruption that is social entitlements. Social Security, which Congress steals from, welfare, which continues to perpetuate the cycle of poverty in communities, Medicare and Medicaid which abused by doctors, medical companies to no end and is extremely inefficient. Don’t get me wrong, military spending is a problem too, but it’s much much smaller in comparison to our other problems.
My dad just got fired because this project isn't going through. He is one of the only people at the company that knows this technology really well and worked on the original one as well as the other ones. Thank you Congress for the loss of thousands of jobs for no reason. Keep spending money on war and giving money to other countries, but can't do a simple project like this.
War makes congress people money, and yeah, America needs all kinds of funding, our roads, bridges, railroads are all falling apart all across the country- I just travelled across the United States and it’s a mess - less than 10% of that ‘$1 trillion infrastructure bill’ went to transportation- look into where the rest of it went - and I feel like a criminal flying between our own cities, TSA needs to transfer all that equipment to the borders-
@@jeremey2072 'war makes money'? Wtf the us is one of the richest countries in the world. War doesn't make the state richer. It makes some individuals richer who won't be paying for your roads, bridges or whatever. If they wanted to, they would have repaired them years ago.
Do we need all this exploitation of the heavens, If all the money had been spent on employing the facilities on 🌍 earth, what a better place this would be. DID NOT OUR BLESSED GOD STATE, THE EARTH I MADE FOR MAN THE HEAVENS I MADE FOR MYSELF. winifred Thompson. Northern Ireland.
@Readthis880 That's not how that works at all. Ukraine isn't getting money, it's getting military hardware. US weapons companies are getting the money, and that money is getting taxed, and going right back to the government.
@@michaelscarn4133 To be fair funding Ukraine directly impacts on of our greatest adversaries. I'm almost certain that there are groups of people within the government who are happy to have the opportunity. 4.5 Trillion Annual Budget and paying 74 Billion to directly inflict economic, military and political damage to one of your main adversaries sounds like a great deal.
All these budgets but none for homeless veterans or homeless period ECT. People wether vote for entertainment in the office vs the lives of the people. Sad smh 😞😭😂
We could get the money to save Chandra if we cut the salary of everyone in Congress by 100k. Then they would still make 79k, plus they could continue to do their insider trading for millions.
@@davidcovey3001 if the country only has 1 fighter jet plane then you make a good point. I don’t know how many there are but I’m sure there’s a lot more than 1.. There’s even warships that carry multiple planes on board
@@davidcovey3001 You're rather ignorant to think that balancing military defense and scientific development means neccesarily cutting off one to fund the other. It is very *Telling*
The Chandra is named after Nobel prize winner Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar.The Chandra X-ray Observatory is NASA's most powerful X-ray telescope, and it was launched on July 23, 1999.
When people say military budget, they don't mean supporting the people who've dedicated themselves to the country, or the incredible engineers that develop technology. What they are really talking about are the corporate businessmen that mark up common goods 2000+% and charge the taxpayers for it, and when the company grows, the senators who awarded that company's contract gets a payout in their investment or campaign contributions.
I wrote a whole paper on why the funding for NASA should be significantly higher, and this pains me. I hope they get their heads out of their asses and use their budget properly
Right now the state that America is in I say we just shut down NASA all together let's focus on some solutions to the immigration issues that were having solve the problems of American people being able to afford rent mortgages and groceries and look at all the people who have lost jobs the last thing the American people are really worried about is NASA and while we're at it we need to shut down CERN as well....
@@kirleyq1394 We have several powerful countries that would love to kill us and our allies. Space is not trying to kill us Also, while space is fascinating it's not a particularly useful line of study unless we actually plan on colonizing. Knowing there's a giant black hole 200,000 light years away doesn't actually provide any practical benefit or advancement to humanity
@@captainuseless2120More than that, Social Security and Medicare together are closer to 70% of the budget, and there's other programs too. I would venture to guess that 70-80% of the budget is some form of welfare spending
@@captainuseless2120 I'm not sure that's a good idea, especially since quality of life and human welfare is one of the U.S.'s best selling points. Though they should be focusing on their own people instead of importing immigrants for welfare.
Considering the importance of knowing what is out there and keeping the earth safe. I think it's a great concern to downscale the budget in such an important telescope. It's leaving the plant vulnerable and blind. As we cannot detect what is happening in space that could affect the planet directly and indirectly. In peace and harmony ❤🌹
No, going to the moon is not comparable to protecting vital supply chains for example. There is no collapse of livelihood if Chandra is destroyed tomorrow. Kids will go to school, there will be no famine, no 1930-style depression, no millions of dead. If China invade Taiwan because they know the USA don't have military planes or the willing to intervene guess what is going to happen? The problem with the military is the scams like the F-15EX costing 80 million dollars, but for people even if they don't have the brains to know the military is far more important than multibillion-dollar curiosity machines. In fact a good park for a community helps Americans more than the space telescope. Or use the 63 million dollars for housing.
@@churutvai1040 the moon itself is called Chandra, it's seen as a GOD (anything that helps us survive is seen as GOD in Hindu culture, like SUN, WATER, AIR, EARTH, etc) Also it wouldn't make sense to call the telescope Chandra as it has nothing to do with Moon.
@@nanashi7779Many cultures have names inspired by or full on taken from their deities. E.g. Jesus is not a very popular name for European Christians, but it is for Latin American Christians, as one example.
That's because spending in the military is arbitrary, it's not as simple as x costs that, the millitary purposefully wastes resources as that opens up more jobs for manufacturing which helps alleviate the cost in general, as since parts go from manufacturer to manufacturer who all want to make a profit the end result can be expensive, like 20x the original amount. The military is gonna get that money back anyways, there are two types of money, the money that the government owns and the money that the government will own.
Tip of the iceberg. The government has a $1.6 trillion annual "discretionary" budget, more than half of which (military+veteran benefits) goes to the military. Meanwhile housing, transportation, energy, science, agriculture (things that genuinely benefit citizens) get about $50-$100 billion each. The only things it spends more on is the "mandatory" spending on social security and medicare, both of which are funded through huge dedicated paycheck deductions.
But you’re wrong. Biden passed a bipartisan infrastructure bill that to this day is underway. There is an article titled “At its two-year anniversary, the bipartisan infrastructure law continues to rebuild all of America” that also links to a White House website where you can see funding locations and active projects. Please do more research before making this kind of claim.
Exactly. This telescope is another waste of money. Who cares about x-rays in space?? Seriously. We have homeless people here right now that can use those millions of dollars. 😞
@@robertr7563 You're right, homelessness is a pressing issue. But don't forget that Chandra studies phenomena invisible to the naked eye, helping us understand black holes and the universe's evolution. It's research helps us to develop real-world technology and inspires future scientists. It's a separate issue from homelessness, but scientific progress benefits us all.
Clearly this is a bargain! For the price of a single fighter jet we further the knowledge of x-rays for all of humanity. Congress needs to fund this ASAP.
Most Congressmen aren't scientists, they're lawyers. Don't expect them to understand how valuable Science is when their careers have been based upon subjective interpretations of reality and law.
@@OceanMan15_ Look up "EXTINCTION LEVEL EVENT", then come back and tell us about how an X-ray telescope is not valuable at all, and "we", because you're apparently speaking for yourself, do not gain anything from it. In other words, sit down and let the adults talk.
What's the opposite of progress?
_Congress!_
same here in india 😂
edit: can you all stop replying to me please?
Regress
Underrated
@@CookingWithJackDaniels that's true, as a whole.... but the opposite of pro is con..... it's a play on words.
To be fair, the US doesn't even have the money for any of the top 5 most expensive programs, that being medicare, medicaid, nuclear weapons, income security programs, and social security. Yes that is correct, the military doesn't make the top 5. Roughly 60% of the 'defense' budget is nukes.
Hundreds of billions for the military but can’t even spare a few ten million for a one-of-a-kind telescope.
Congress can't approve funding for military aid for Ukraine. I mean, do you feel like they know what they are doing there?
Tbf, i feel like the us budget should go to soooo many things (schools, hospitals, social programs, public transit,...) but everything is better then the money wasted on the military.
And it's double wasted as most money doesn't even fund the military, but just goes to make few dudes even richer
The US has a spending problem in and outside the military. We could save millions without military price gouging but we also need to focus on the inefficient spending we do in other sectors. Spending more on healthcare than other countries but not having access to affordable healthcare is a crime. The US has the money it just needs to not waste it
@@no_name4796yep, corporate military
Because it doesn't lead to donation.
Cut Congressional budget instead!!
We should cut the budget for congress by 40%.
No more seat warmers. No paid expenses. No jets. No nothing 😂
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Or more effectively, outlaw briber-- I mean lobbying 😝
That's a good way of making certain that only the wealthy can ever hold a position of power in the government. The wealthy don't need a pay check. The ones who are like you and I do.
Make it so they can't invest in the market.
They saw this comment and gave themselves pay raises
The fact that you think they actually follow a budget is the problem. Look at their bank accounts. Why is mine smaller while people like aoc are magically worth 20 mil at least.
I used to work in a Congressional staff office. Make sure to CALL your member of Congress. The call tally sheets are delivered straight from the interns answering the phones to your representative. Emails are handled purely by staff.
The comments complaining have hundreds of likes.
This comment that actually tells you the correct way to take action and do something about the issue only has 20
Shows you where everyone’s head is at in society
@@CadaverCo Ikr? I hit the like instantly on this one.
C'mon guys, we need to bump this comment, it's actually the answer to the issue!!!!
So, you're recommending a bunch of millennials to pick up the phone, call somebody - THAT THEY DON'T KNOW - and speak to them?
I like your optimism 😂
@@YOEL_44 Why should Congress deny NASA's own budget? It's a 2% increase from 2024, if we're pretending the right answer is to keep all NASA programs funded exactly how they were, are you proposing reducing NASA's budget? Or are we going to acknowledge that we're having this conversation without any of the context as to where NASA is trying to reallocate those funds to? Yet we should call our representatives and make our uneducated voices heard? I truly hope they ignore most of those calls.
Comparing it to the cost of a military jet just really shows where all that money goes... instead of towards science.
All that money? Into those rich guys' pockets, doubt it even goes to military
The military is science you doorknob. You know how many inventions came from the military?
How many people leaving comments like this also vote for politicians who wasted hundreds of billions on Ukraine?
@@zwan1886 Ты такой старательный маленький тролль, папочка Путин наверное гордится.
You will never win.@@positronalpha
Chandra's budget is equivalent to one military grade toilet seat. Yet they cut its budget by 40% smh.
yet they cut it because the pew pews are more fun to them along w making fun of Obamna... yeah the US is fucked tbh
Because …it is Chandra 😮
@@blueberries2910 thats why chi n is winning
@@SapphicKitty Holy home school
Good job man! I wasn't aware they wanted to cut Chandra's budget. I'm going to research this more in depth and jump on the bandwagon and beg them to reconsider. If we each add our voice, the louder we become. The louder we become, the better our chances of being heard...
Money for bombs, but not for healthcare.
Money for guns, but not for infrastructure.
Money for war, but not for scientific study.
America, are you great yet?
Military spending is where most scientific development comes from
@@robertm3329but not alone. You first have to have a framework to explore to research it inside military
@@jakubrejzekjunior7349 The overwhelming majority of the technology we enjoy today is hand-me-down technology from military research labs, does the internet ring a bell? Military science is about 15 to 30 years ahead of civilian science and will continue to be the place where most technical advancements are handed down via patent sales.
@@jakubrejzekjunior7349 Generally it works the opposite way, military research discovers principle and application, that trickles down into civilian application. Things like rocketry and digital electronics are good examples.
@@robertm3329 the Internet is a child of the military. I agree that contractors are bleeding us dry and there is DEFINITELY corruption but we're funding most of NATO so we've put ourselves in a position that we can't get out of
I’d be more shocked if Congress did something right.
Well, if Congress did something right. It wont make news
@@navyseal1689Well can’t stroke congress dick for doing something right, that’s literally bare minimum 🤪
The only bipartisan agreement in congress is that social media is bad for children and yet they haven’t done anything about it
If you count Florida State Congress they made it law that if you touch a kid under 12 they can give you the big sleep
West Virginia has passed a law bumping their minimum marriage age to 18.
@@NickCamokidVisneskigood because a lot of red states were trying to bring back child marriages.
Nasas budget is criminally low.
Isn't it like 70 mil a day?
@Seducier I am not sure, but I know the military gave NASA two spy satellites more powerful than hubble, that NASA couldn't afford to make, to repurpose as observatories but NASA doesn't have the money to put them in space....
If you like infrared thermometers, phone cameras, foil emergency blankets, UV glasses, cordless power tools, folding laptops oh and fiber optics used in surgery daily... remember all those and many more life altering inventions came from our best national Research and Development NASA... as a reward get a smaller budget every year.
@@Seducierliterally nothing compared to every other major agency
@dallas9397 buddy, what does nasa give back to us that's worth 70 mil per day? 🤔
@@Seducier NASA released the results of its second agencywide economic impact report on Thursday, demonstrating how its Moon to Mars activities, investments in climate change research and technology, as well as other work generated more than $71.2 billion in total economic output during fiscal year 2021.
Combined, NASA’s impact supported more than 339,600 jobs nationwide, and generated nearly $7.7 billion in federal, state, and local taxes throughout the United States.
“Investment in NASA’s missions is an investment in American workers, American innovation, and American competitiveness for the 21st century. NASA is positioning our partners in commercial space and the national economy to win the future of spaceflight in 21st century as we prepare to return astronauts to the Moon, and then go on to Mars,” said NASA Administrator Bill Nelson. “While our work will always push the limits throughout the cosmos, it also strengthens the planet beneath our feet. NASA partners with small businesses, industry, academia, and other government agencies to address engineering challenges, and to transfer out our technologies, capabilities, and data all for public benefit here on Earth. NASA may be a small federal agency, but we punch above our weight, fueling growth in American industry with good-paying, quality jobs in all 50 states and maintaining our leadership in space and science.”
The study found NASA’s Moon to Mars exploration approach generated more than $20.1 billion in total economic output and supported more than 93,700 jobs nationwide. For investments in climate research and technology, the agency’s activities generated more than $7.4 billion in total economic output and supported more than 37,000 jobs nationwide.
Additional key findings of the study include:
Every state in the country benefits economically through NASA activities. Forty-six states have an economic impact of more than $10 million. Of those 46 states, nine have an economic impact of $1 billion or more.
NASA’s agencywide fiscal year 2021 economic output increased by 10.7% from fiscal year 2019, the year the agency conducted its first report.
The agency’s Moon to Mars campaign, which includes the Artemis program, generated nearly $2.2 billion in tax revenue, and saw an economic output increase of 42.6% from fiscal year 2019. These activities provided about 28% of NASA’s economic impact.
The agency’s investments in climate change research and technology generated nearly $810 million in tax revenue and provided 11% of NASA’s economic impact.
NASA has more than 2,655 active domestic and international agreements for various scientific research and technology development activities in fiscal year 2021. The International Space Station is a significant representative of international partnerships - representing 15 nations and five space agencies and has been operating for more than 20 years.
NASA has 700 different active partnerships with non-federal U.S. partners and partnerships in 44 of 50 states. For example, flight technology like NASA’s all-electric X-57 Maxwell.
NASA spinoffs, which are public products and processes that are developed with NASA technology, funding, or expertise, provide a benefit to American lives beyond dollars and jobs. The agency has recorded more than 2,000 spinoff technologies since 1976. For example, NASA’s indoor agricultural techniques in vertical farm structures are being adopted by private companies to build indoor farms.
Scientific research and development, which fuels advancements in science and technology that can help improve daily life on Earth and for humanity, enjoys the largest single-sector impact, accounting for 20% of NASA’s overall economic output.
Why do they insist on on changing things that don't need to be changed ?! Why nor cut 63 million dollars from money that can be sent to other countries ?!
"Congress is about to make a huge mistake" from what i've heard that's an average day in america
I wonder who's getting a pay raise..
That's an average day in every county, get off your high horse
@@crysteldogg8936 He's not wrong.
Since repugs are offering no legislation and blocking everything else, don't worry about Chandra... worry about EVERYTHING not getting funded... cancer research, infrastructure repair, supporting our allies, veterans healthcare... by all means let's bitch and moan about 0.01% of people affected by transgender issues. Pffft
Pretty much
"Congress is about to make a huge mistake."
What's new?
"In space."
NO!
This is exactly how I reacted.
Congress: Not my Problem, i only care about my pocket
Unironically, my exact second to second reaction
Read that with soldiers voice 🤣🤣🤣
You must be new to this planet. It’s the government’s job to make mistakes and our job to pay for it.
They must’ve seen something and don’t want it to be monitored and leaked to the public.
Yes exactly my thoughts. They’ve been catching a lot of footage on these satellites and during a time when we are so close to “disclosure” pretty much being forced on them finally (in addition to the souls within the US & all over the planet who are now awakening at different stages due to solar flares and the earths frequency rising) they know that we are paying attention now, doing our own research and understanding things as they are and always have been…of course they want to regain some control over us it just makes sense!! But that doesn’t mean we have to let them. I believe we need to take responsibility for our own country and unite peacefully & responsibly. ❤
by xray? seti already found a bunch of shortwaves. they're out there and we're being stalled
Using the phrase “extinction level event” to describe a telescope being defunded is beyond ridiculous, and I’m in favor of keeping the satellite!
Annoyingly dramatic
He says "an extinction level event for X-ray astronomy"
@@Garlicman300yeah, but he leaves that out on the thumbnail to manipulate you to click. Clickbait is necessary, but this just feels like a lie
Yup. Boo click bait
Wake up!
"Congress is about to make a huge mistake" is an evergreen phrase.
Its more a fact of life 😂😂😂
democracy is as stupid as an appeal to popularity
Congress's very first mistake was recognizing Ronald Reagan as president.
The GOP side of the Congress is and has been a HUGE Mistake for the Country.
It’s better to ask not what mistakes Congress will make, but what they’ll do that wasn’t a mistake
A single f-16 for a yearly funding budget is crazy low for congress
You misunderstood. NASA gets $58 million per day. The cost to keep Chandra is the price of an f16
@@mohnjarx7801yet still they only focus on military
Your listening comprehension is off.
They send 3.8 billion dollars to fund Israel military for war yet can’t even spare 68 million dollars for science 🤦♀️
Original NASA wasn't really about space travel as much as intercontinental missiles in the first place. Most nasa invented items eventually go to the military. Nasa and the military is linked way more than people even realize. Everything from satellites to Velcro.
Rember everyone these people work for us we voted for them.
If you want them gone either run for office or vote for the other one running
Yes, Someone Voted Yet There Are No Term Limits, Unsure IF That Is Part Of The Cycle.
With a 40% cut, we can only find 60% of the black holes.
I can't believe an F-16 costs the same as the entire budget for this operation.
for a year*
but yea.
Which is more significant in value to not the citizens but the US gov.?
Nasa needs to bring back the old, after placing the new in orbit. Parts have value
Penn and Teller think Nasa had gone bigger and lazier compared to the 60's. DEI hires make matters worse.
@@alkeryn1700if you want to compare apple to apples, try to find the operational costs for F-16, and it looks this even worse. The operational cost of Chandra is even lower than the F-16.
Congress is where the people that can't balance the budget, somehow become millionaires.
"Show me a man that gets rich by being a politician, and I'll show you a crook.” -- Harry Truman.
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Oh, they can balance it. There's just more money in mishandling it, because idiots do a lot of voting.
@@siler7omg, this is the best quote and it is true .. they gain way more from mishandling stuff than doing it properly..
Russian bot
Ask congress? I don't think Marjorie Taylor Greene understands how outer space works. Or shopping carts, or door bells.
But they have to pay Israel😢
And Ukraine.
Congress: "What's the role of an X ray space telescope in a WW3?" 💀💀💀💀💀💀
To see the bones of the enemy duh
They don't shoot x-rays, fml😂
Observing nuclear flashes!
the cold war 2
You'll find out once we start fighting over the moons resources.
"War makes money, space telescopes don't."
-Congress, probably
probably most of them think like this. what scientist found in space they always make some kind of theory breakthrough in PAPER while war's need more weapon more bullet more supplier more buyer and that bring more money
War makes technological innovations as well. Plus there are the space telescopes we don’t know about because they are still classified
@@CaseyTheAlpha i think i heard somewhere that said scope was originally came from a far past researcher who trying to see the sky from a tower
@@CaseyTheAlpha Those technological innovations are not at all useful to anyone not in the military. I would be perfectly happy if there was never again military technological advancement
@@mr.dirtydan3338 Then log off the internet. Never use super glue. You like the radio and all the various things powered by radio waves? Gone like the wind with your cellphones, gps, rc cars, television, hell even wireless clocks and garage door openers.
Modern day airplanes use a jet engine, this engine was created by Nazis. I mean the list can go on forever. Technological innovations are sparked by wars. Not just Military tech, all tech.
Fun fact, the entire apollo program (one of the most revolutionary and impressive endeavors in mankind) cost 100 billion dolllars over the course of 10 years, it cost the same as 2 months of the us military budget
The congress we have now is the biggest mistake we have ever made in our history!!!!😢
And that goes for both sides of the aisle !
Just tell the Congressmen that NASA found oil on a nearby exoplanet, and the space budget will skyrocket, trust me
Corrupt problems require corrupt solutions
why do you think they fund war lol why go to space when you can steal it abroad
Ofc
NASA would reveal that you are lying
Plenty of "fossil fuels" on Saturn's moon Titan
Just tell them its a weapon of war the budget will sky rocket
literally
It searches for oil.
Well technically can be considered a surveillance equipment in space. For any gamma ray event that can destroy all spaces equipment and even treating life existance on this planet. From super novas or even a Avance civilization. Activity. In space.
Or drop welfare? Food stamps? Get Americans working again. Military is just as important as space stop being delusional
absolutely they will go haywire 😂
I love this, yet after having listened to Representative David Schweikert give addresses to the Speaker of the House (pro tem at that) surrounded by an empty room of congress, we're borrowing nearly $100,00 every second to fund gov't activity. Congress only gets to vote on something in the neighborhood of 26% within overall spending. Adding to that, 39 cents out of every tax dollar goes to paying back interest.
We need to root out bad actors sending waves of lies wherever people can hear and read, force congress to enact policy that drives down Healthcare costs first, and get more wise people in votable seats in our govt to fix decades of inadequate action. Relinquishing the chains around our democracy is the road to getting funding in the right pockets.. pockets like this one.
Ban lobbying. That would fix a lot. Not all but a lot
It is not the taxpayers responsibility to pay for telescopes. Let the private sector do this. And while we are at it scale back ALL government spending .
Unfortunately for humanity knowledge is left at the whim of ignorance of politics.
Well thats how they always control the Population
I mean think about north korea
Well that isn't true, because other Countries have space programmes too.
And politicians too @@trudilm3864
@@trudilm3864other countries also have bad politicians.
@@trudilm3864yes they do for example india. You know what politicians did here? Cut the funding to the space programme. Last year was when the lunar landing took place, the same year (long before the mission) the current party in power cut the space programmes funding. And when the landing happened successfully, didn't wait a second plastering their own faces (not the faces of the scientists who worked on the mission) on posters advertising the success of the Indian space programme
The biggest mistake Congress has made was allowing a congress member who thinks the moon is made out of gas
Not gas, plasma
Ya, it's plasma. And we never left the earths atmosphere. It's all fake. They are stealing money from everyone.
The members are elected by people and not Congress.
They've spent TRILLIONS on trying to find "Life" on the moon since 1969.
Never once staying 24 hours there.
Next trip will be September 2025 at the cost of $4.1 BILLION.
N.A.S.A.
Numbskulls
Astronomical
Spending
Allowance
@@TheNester.You must be one of those people who think the moon landings were fake.
As we said in the 60s ‘I did my job!’
I wonder what the long term plan for this is. I know the MIT lab that built Chandra is working on a new X-ray telescope, I suspect it is far from ready to replace Chandra though. I have the fortune of one of my wife’s relatives being a part of the MIT X-ray astronomy program and have toured their lab several times. There work is nothing short of fascinating!
"Congress is about to make a huge mistake."
My man, Congress itself is a huge mistake.
Better alternative?
@classicalAnime The only two options I see are to clear house completely (as in to not leave even a single incumbent, even in the Supreme Court) or to hit the reset button and perhaps try a different system.
@@lunavarion all I will say is that the founders, particularly Madison (who drafted the Constitution and the Bill of Rights), were extremely careful students of history, and were quite well aware about the consequences of hastily overthrowing government. Jefferson, writing in the Declaration of Independence said: (revolution) shall not be done for “light and transient causes”. And I’m sure everyone here wants to jump right away and say our current situation meets that threshold. And to that I say, study history.
@@lunavarion Are you advocating for totalitarianism or something like that?
@geo5873 Definitely not. Republics are nice on paper. In practice, though, they always seem like the ideal platform for corrupt, power-hungry individuals to claim power and become totalitarian. For examples, look at Rome and the current, American government.
The fact we have to ask, beg, or expect anything constructive involving congress is already an issue in and of itself. The fact they get paid at all or have any kind of merit is a joke.
preach brother lmao
They don’t give a damn about us in the least. They’ll all be dead of old age before the environment is damaged beyond repair or before the social security runs out. So they still get to run the country how they like it because they know they’ll be long gone before it even matters. The average age of a citizen in the U.S is 38.9 years old, it’s 58.4 for congress and 64.3 for Senators.
Bro that is what democracy is and it's way better than the alternatives😂
@ryboodle America a democracy, really?
Tell me you dont work and receive money from the gov, without telling me....@@ryboodle
Kingdoms are run by kings.
Empires are run by emporors.
Counties are run by.... oh.
It’s sad that money issues limit science’s progress.
NASA's yearly budget isn't even 3% of the US military budget each year, yet a lot of people still complain that space study is too much.
3% is huge! I’ll gladly take 3% of my federal taxes back.
@@benvoiles9166 Do you not see the flaw in the US military having so much funding
The issue is that people don't realize that it fuels advancement in technology that benefits their everyday lives once it is invented for space travel
@@kiwenmanisuno The US military is also where most of the research advances are made.
@@jackmclaughlin9911 it literally isn't but ok
Take it out of their salaries. They’re skimming millions off our tax dollars on the side anyway.
lol, Nancy’s insider trading could pay for it a few times over.
lol, Nancy’s insider trading could pay for it a few times over.
*trillions
Don't be roped in. Bad spending doesn't justify good spending. Our government debt is *our* problem.
No, nothing spent at federal level comes from your taxes. Read "Deficit Myth" by Stephanie Kelton.
Congressmen don’t have very big salaries though.
If you could find a way to skim it off their earnings from insider trading, then I might be for it. I don’t think you can actually do that though, and the idea of the federal government getting a cut of insider trading money makes me uneasy.
They approved a failed pier for over 300 M USD! That's 5 years worth of Chandra!
Rename Chandra to Chandler. Some US legislators might think Chandra does not sound western thus it might be a spy satellite so they cut its budget. 😂😂😂😂
We could save billions if congress would stop letting contractors underbid and over charge
contracting at all in government is the worst case scenario.
more than that to be honest. maybe not in one year, but it adds up.
Good Procurement is important
And stop sending money to Ukraine and Isreal
Contracting is important as it allows for more competition, ensuring that we end up with the best available tech for defense. However we could cut down on a few things, I’m not sure what, but cutting politicians’ salaries is definitely on the top of my list
It's our tax dollars, screw you Congress!
And I don't want it spent on a stupid telescope.
@@Red-Check-Mark💀
@@Red-Check-Markbegone
Just imagine if there was a World nation without need for military....uffff the amount of extra money we would have for science, technology and development😮😮😮😢...
@@Red-Check-Mark and youre too simple minded to understand the implications of the "stupid telescope".
Please dont vote :)
USA: ok let’s spend 99% of our budget on the military because we don’t want a repeat of the time we spent all our budget on the military
NASA: uhh, can we have a little money too?
USA: NASA, You know how much money we’ve wasted in your silly mankind-progressing projects? No. We’re stopping this right now, 100% OF THE BUDGET TO THE MILITARY!
Military spending, funding wars, hedging themselves in for fear of the evil they themselves wrought unto themselves.
"Congress is about to make a huge mistake", could have been the entire message and applicable to pretty much everything they're doing these days.
And what are we to do about it?
@@thebitlotWhen have the slaves ever been allowed to "do something about it"?
@@happyvapor4670 Do you want a list of slave rebellions and revolutions throughout the history of time or was that a rhetorical question?
Congress: "$68 million? For a telescope? That's too much!"
Also Congress: "$1 trillion? For some fighter jets? Don't mind if I do 🤑💸💵💰"
Worst thing is that the fighter jets cost about half of they're actual budget to build, the rest is profit for private afiliated companys...
Americans will continue to get milked by their government clean
@@jamess4444 Lockheed I believe is their main source right
Well those jets are the reason no one would dare to even think about attacking your country. 😊
@@dimitritsetezoh2784this guy gets it
Why cut something made so well the US Congress don't know the effort being put in it. It's made so well it requires less budget than usual. Greedy mfs
LORD, Creator of Heaven and Earth, wake Congress for us and help them balance the budget according to your will. You are the mighty God who created heaven and earth and all that is in them.
That's $0.2 from every US citizen.
which is a tiny percentage of all the hundreds of tax dollars payed by Americans every year, but hey guess it's better spent increasing the salaries of congress ppl
@@sharkace1740With the Pelosi return on investments they should be pretty close to funding it themselves, right?
Thats still tax money that’s not going to benefit those who are paying for it. The Cold War over, no more need for national projects to demonstrate America capable outside of shooting wars. Go back to how they use to be funded by either private funding or partnerships with business…
Your math is an order of magnitude and then some off the mark.
Are you confusing total population with number of citizens?
The stimulus checks was 60,000 per citizen and we ended up with what. 10% of it? The rest laundered squandered and stolen.
I rather my taxes go to that than for wars we shouldn't be involved in. 100 percent.
One is profitable, other isn't
@@vanjamenadzerwhich is which? Bc science is very profitable
@@vanjamenadzer they're both for profit, and both for humanity. The space race resulted with lots good byproduct projects have made money, eg. Corelle dishes. Some wars are for-profit eg. Iraq, some wars are for survival, eg. Ukraine. I guess it all depends on which end of the gun you were on. Cheers!
AIPAC be like
@@user-sy7ld3zl3o Unfortunately, not entirely true. Space projects is more akin to an investment, and the advancements that come from it doesn't always translate into profit, though it is academically very important.
War on the other hand... That's _immediately_ profitable. They just need to wave a tiny American flag and stir up some right-wing patriotism, and everybody goes nuts and never question why they're going to war.
But we have to help Ukraine by sending billion of dollars. Who has time for science
Come on. We have like 80 or 90 military bases all over the planet.
Thank you for this! I have been working with Chandra data for several years now, including on some of the galaxies you showed. The science I, and many others currently do is not possible without Chandra. The current defunding of Chandra for no discernible reason is already a huge detriment to the scientific community, and our ability to investigate the most energetic events in the universe. And this is only going to get worse if Congress continues defunding it without considering any replacement.
God bless you, you are part of history🌌
"Chandra" the name is the reason. They will replace it with "luna".
I used to want to work for nasa but that dream died when I realized it was a part of government bureaucracy that’s subject to stupid decisions
Edit this isn’t attacking anyone I just don’t like that the people in charge don’t fund the one thing their department is dedicated to
So people's money should be stolen from them in order to give you a toy you like to work with? Hell no. Go get a real job and stop defending government overreach.
Is there any practical application derived of that field that could be leveraged?
Thanks for letting us know how STUPID our congress is so we can do something. 👍🏽❤️
Congress is stupid
Almost as stupid as believing in Black Holes.
Y'all remember ASB club from school, ran by those super cool kids that had no clue about anything at all? Yep, that's congress pretty much
Liberals aren't very smart.
They prefer wasting money on migrants & releasing criminals from prison.
Most politicians are stupid so doesn’t surprise me
If it was a nuclear war head they would fork out the money with no problem 😒
I'm no Joe you go to NASA and reactivate every single one of the satellites that are not on this earth
Carl Sagan wrote about this exact problem in Cosmos.
It's sad to see that Congress still has not changed.
"In the last quarter of 1979, the program cost of the U.S. F/A-18 aircraft increased by $5.1 billion, and the F-16 by $3.4 billion. Since their inceptions, significantly less has been spent on the unmanned planetary programs of both the United States and the Soviet Union than has been wasted shamefully - for example, between 1970 and 1975, in the U.S. bombing of Cambodia, an application of national policy that cost $7 billion. The total cost of a mission such as Viking to Mars, or Voyager to the outer solar system, is less than that of the 1979-80 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Through technical employment and the stimulation of high technology, money spent on space exploration has an economic multiplier effect."
From the final chapter of Cosmos.
@@nitish2049that hurts my soul
Government by lawyers has been a disaster for the human race.
No they're far worse now.
Isn't Sagan in the fire mentioned in Luke 16?
Not only save Chandra but UPGRADE Chandra!
How? It's in a very distant orbit so you can't just send someone out there with a wrench.
@@jeremytheimer7443 Send a mission to upgrade Chandra.
Its way much easier replace it than an upgrade
@@virmirfan lol it’s so far out I don’t think a human could make it
@@virmirfan both are great sounding adventures.
Looks like a broken driveshaft...👽
Because Chandra is made in India
It has always upset me how little money goes into our space program. And look how much we can do with it already. They could double the budget and Congress wouldn't even feel it, it's one of our smaller expenses in the annual budget. It would have greta positive affects on all of science.
And on military aswell, im surpised that country so focused on military doesnt take space seriously.
@@Jk-tp2llIt will once we get into a conflict with another space capable country, just not the telescopes though
@@Jk-tp2llWe spend over 50% of our budget on the massive amount of corruption that is social entitlements.
Social Security, which Congress steals from, welfare, which continues to perpetuate the cycle of poverty in communities, Medicare and Medicaid which abused by doctors, medical companies to no end and is extremely inefficient.
Don’t get me wrong, military spending is a problem too, but it’s much much smaller in comparison to our other problems.
@@pikeman6774 I never said its a problem, i just think spending a fraction more on space would improve military capabilities aswell.
@@Jk-tp2ll Probably true.
If not improve our resource capacity, if we could mine asteroids.
My dad just got fired because this project isn't going through. He is one of the only people at the company that knows this technology really well and worked on the original one as well as the other ones.
Thank you Congress for the loss of thousands of jobs for no reason. Keep spending money on war and giving money to other countries, but can't do a simple project like this.
Sorry for your dad.
War makes congress people money, and yeah, America needs all kinds of funding, our roads, bridges, railroads are all falling apart all across the country- I just travelled across the United States and it’s a mess - less than 10% of that ‘$1 trillion infrastructure bill’ went to transportation- look into where the rest of it went - and I feel like a criminal flying between our own cities, TSA needs to transfer all that equipment to the borders-
@@jeremey2072 'war makes money'? Wtf the us is one of the richest countries in the world. War doesn't make the state richer. It makes some individuals richer who won't be paying for your roads, bridges or whatever. If they wanted to, they would have repaired them years ago.
Sorry for your dad, I guess ur government prefers sending money overseas to tyrannical governments instead of helping their citizens.
@@SY-vj8tbit can always be richer
You'd think they would cut military budget but that would mean possibly giving up freedom. Our priorities are out of whack.
Do we need all this exploitation of the heavens, If all the money had been spent on employing the facilities on 🌍 earth, what a better place this would be. DID NOT OUR BLESSED GOD STATE, THE EARTH I MADE FOR MAN THE HEAVENS I MADE FOR MYSELF. winifred Thompson. Northern Ireland.
Wait a minute... IT ONLY COST A SINGLE STUPID FIGHTER JET THAT DOESN'T EVEN DO MUCH FOR HUMANITY!? AND THEY CAN'T EVEN AFFORD THAT!?
They can but there's more pressing issues. Hell, we're funding most of Europes military
@Readthis880 That's not how that works at all. Ukraine isn't getting money, it's getting military hardware.
US weapons companies are getting the money, and that money is getting taxed, and going right back to the government.
@Readthis880 Ukraine didn't started war - russia does started it
@Readthis880They funnelled the money through Ukraine*
Still a lot to learn, but you are on the right track.
@Readthis880 brain rot
Ah, the beloved spinoff of "Congress Is About to Make a Huge Mistake"... "Congress Is About to Make a Huge Mistake IN SPACE!!!"
Honestly, the number of sequels and spin-offs this IP has gotten is starting to make me think they've run out of good ideas
9 out of 10 peopling complaining about tax dollars going to the military in this comment section support more funding for ukraine
@@cagneybillingsley2165
Do they? Really ??? That sucks
@anotherfacelessname9270 well the whole premise is not having good ideas and I don't think they'll ever run out of ways to not have good ideas
@@cagneybillingsley2165 Yeah, because Ukraine needs it.
Maybe the astronomers can pay the bill. Deadbeats.
this is unbelievably frustrating to hear. Congress continues to disappoint and misprioritize
US Congress making mistakes in space is the new height bro 💀💀💀
When previously, we thought the sky was the limit 💀
It is the limit... operation fish bowl!
Complain about it then. But nothing will change
68 million for Chandra
Congress: No
14 billion for Israel
Congress: Hell yes.
74 B for Ukraine ? Yes
@@michaelscarn4133 To be fair funding Ukraine directly impacts on of our greatest adversaries. I'm almost certain that there are groups of people within the government who are happy to have the opportunity. 4.5 Trillion Annual Budget and paying 74 Billion to directly inflict economic, military and political damage to one of your main adversaries sounds like a great deal.
@@ziting5756 None of that means anything when a missed asteroid hits the world.
@@gerhardolivier6285
I'm _pretty_ sure that's not what Chandra's for...
But true. 🤷🏾♂️
1.3 Trillion for Iran war... APPROVED! (by the way, what exactly did we get out of that MASSIVE investment??)
All these budgets but none for homeless veterans or homeless period ECT. People wether vote for entertainment in the office vs the lives of the people. Sad smh 😞😭😂
this current congress is an extinction level event
They are an elongation of Trump's private part. What he dictates is what happens. 1984 is today
Underrated comment.
Vote Obamna fo Amurica🇺🇲🇺🇲🦅
Haha yes
More like extinction of the American empire.
We could get the money to save Chandra if we cut the salary of everyone in Congress by 100k. Then they would still make 79k, plus they could continue to do their insider trading for millions.
You could do it even without cutting salaries. The Federal Government is a currency issuer, not a currency user. They can just print the money.
@@Skeletron1000 that would cause a lot of inflation though
edit: just cut the congress salaries lmao i meant we don't need to print extra money
@@hybbfr727 don't worry about inflation
Your assets will go up and balance out the inflation
😂
Congress could stop giving money to illegal aliens. That would pay for the telescope too. Or is that not "nice"?
Cut a single time for 100k to each, and then treat them as pocket change for everything science related they cut investment?
Count me in
Losing Chandra makes absolutely no difference to anyone’s life on Earth 👍
Spending to fund wars 😮
The fighter jet comparison really put things in perspective. Completely misplaced priorities.
So, you’d rather tax money goes to study X-rays millions of light years away, rather than the defense of the country? Totally makes sense…
@@davidcovey3001 if the country only has 1 fighter jet plane then you make a good point. I don’t know how many there are but I’m sure there’s a lot more than 1.. There’s even warships that carry multiple planes on board
@@davidcovey3001
You're rather ignorant to think that balancing military defense and scientific development means neccesarily cutting off one to fund the other. It is very *Telling*
@@davidcovey3001 im not even in the us but u guys have already enough defensive power.
@@abdul123r
They have 2000 such planes actually.
The Chandra is named after Nobel prize winner Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar.The Chandra X-ray Observatory is NASA's most powerful X-ray telescope, and it was launched on July 23, 1999.
Chandra in Sanskrit means the moon, I don't know if that's relevant or not
@@Desperateashellyes it can be relevant
Nobody asked
@@SiNiC875right, shut up mate
@@SiNiC875but it’s a cool and related fact
When people say military budget, they don't mean supporting the people who've dedicated themselves to the country, or the incredible engineers that develop technology. What they are really talking about are the corporate businessmen that mark up common goods 2000+% and charge the taxpayers for it, and when the company grows, the senators who awarded that company's contract gets a payout in their investment or campaign contributions.
let that sink in, only the cost of 1 modern fighter yet, yet those senile old ghouls would rather spend as much money as they can on the military.
I wrote a whole paper on why the funding for NASA should be significantly higher, and this pains me. I hope they get their heads out of their asses and use their budget properly
They won’t get their heads out of their assess! It’s too far up to their non Neuron functioning Brains. Soul-less! 🤡👻
nasa would probably just go and waste it on some dei stuff anyway
You did a paper on NASA and didn't figure out what a horribly corrupt organization it is?
Couldn't have been much of a paper
Unless they find a way to start making steady profit off space, no one will care in our society.
I would love to read it, where can I find it
Lets get the layoffs underway as soon as possible. Including the house and senate!!!
Why do we allow the government to control the process of electing the government?
As Javier Milei says ¡AFUERA!
Facts
Right now the state that America is in I say we just shut down NASA all together let's focus on some solutions to the immigration issues that were having solve the problems of American people being able to afford rent mortgages and groceries and look at all the people who have lost jobs the last thing the American people are really worried about is NASA and while we're at it we need to shut down CERN as well....
Of course they have to watch for the signs of the time just like as they did centuries ago.
😑 Government Limiting Chandra's budget would be as same as "someone closing the eyes to save energy." (We can miss out a lot of things)
Ask Biden to give Ukraine back our taxes he gave them.
i am on your side. But in fact, if we close our eyes, we save actual energy. 😂
Capital owners want to push scientists into the private sector so that they can control what they work on, patent it, and profit off of it.
You mean government approving a limited budget, NASA is the one cutting the budget
NASA in Hebrew means to deceive..
I’m sorry, we’ve got hundreds of fighter jets but only one telescope. How is this even a question? What insane budget priorities.
The military is only 15% of the US budget. 55% of all spending is entirely on the welfare state. That’s what we really need to cut
We have 987 F-16s in the US. This is insanity. Just the military industrial complex at work.
@@kirleyq1394 We have several powerful countries that would love to kill us and our allies. Space is not trying to kill us
Also, while space is fascinating it's not a particularly useful line of study unless we actually plan on colonizing. Knowing there's a giant black hole 200,000 light years away doesn't actually provide any practical benefit or advancement to humanity
@@captainuseless2120More than that, Social Security and Medicare together are closer to 70% of the budget, and there's other programs too. I would venture to guess that 70-80% of the budget is some form of welfare spending
@@captainuseless2120 I'm not sure that's a good idea, especially since quality of life and human welfare is one of the U.S.'s best selling points. Though they should be focusing on their own people instead of importing immigrants for welfare.
we need to lay off politicans. no term limits is a bigger mistake.
Considering the importance of knowing what is out there and keeping the earth safe.
I think it's a great concern to downscale the budget in such an important telescope. It's leaving the plant vulnerable and blind. As we cannot detect what is happening in space that could affect the planet directly and indirectly. In peace and harmony ❤🌹
The fact that you can compare it to A SINGLE f16 is just absurd. The fact that nasa is getting so little but doing so much. Nasa deserve more
Enter India, making do with the bare minimum 💀
Enter India, making do with the bare minimum💀
Nasa is not getting so little bro see isro budget and see its achievements
GOP hates science and loves the 1%.
No, going to the moon is not comparable to protecting vital supply chains for example. There is no collapse of livelihood if Chandra is destroyed tomorrow. Kids will go to school, there will be no famine, no 1930-style depression, no millions of dead. If China invade Taiwan because they know the USA don't have military planes or the willing to intervene guess what is going to happen? The problem with the military is the scams like the F-15EX costing 80 million dollars, but for people even if they don't have the brains to know the military is far more important than multibillion-dollar curiosity machines. In fact a good park for a community helps Americans more than the space telescope. Or use the 63 million dollars for housing.
For those who don't know, Chandra is named after Indian-American astrophysicist Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar.
I thought it was named after Hindu🕉️ moon god CHANDRA
@@churutvai1040 the moon itself is called Chandra, it's seen as a GOD (anything that helps us survive is seen as GOD in Hindu culture, like SUN, WATER, AIR, EARTH, etc)
Also it wouldn't make sense to call the telescope Chandra as it has nothing to do with Moon.
Interesting, sounds like Chandrasekhar is a nominative determinism@@churutvai1040
@@MarcSpctr that means human beings are god as well according to you
@@nanashi7779Many cultures have names inspired by or full on taken from their deities. E.g. Jesus is not a very popular name for European Christians, but it is for Latin American Christians, as one example.
They should just allocate the funds from one of the other telescopes if they have to..
What did Chandra do to get this treatment 😭😭😭
Save Chandra sound like save moon 😂
Wait... a single f16 plane costs 63 Million? Usa has over 2000 of those planes!
That's over 120 Billion Dollars... the country's spending is fucked.
Exactly, stop the millitary and improve economy and living. Spend money on space aswell
As far as I know that is it's lifetime (55 years or so) cost to run and maintain.
Edit: As far as I know, this claim was pulled from someone's ass.
That's because spending in the military is arbitrary, it's not as simple as x costs that, the millitary purposefully wastes resources as that opens up more jobs for manufacturing which helps alleviate the cost in general, as since parts go from manufacturer to manufacturer who all want to make a profit the end result can be expensive, like 20x the original amount.
The military is gonna get that money back anyways, there are two types of money, the money that the government owns and the money that the government will own.
Not to mention all the millions spent on equipment abandoned in Afghanistan.
Tip of the iceberg. The government has a $1.6 trillion annual "discretionary" budget, more than half of which (military+veteran benefits) goes to the military. Meanwhile housing, transportation, energy, science, agriculture (things that genuinely benefit citizens) get about $50-$100 billion each. The only things it spends more on is the "mandatory" spending on social security and medicare, both of which are funded through huge dedicated paycheck deductions.
Congress doesn't take care of bridges either. They haven't a clue. 😮
Considering that they doing dishwasher repair bills for all week speaks for itself.
They do they just don’t care.
But you’re wrong. Biden passed a bipartisan infrastructure bill that to this day is underway. There is an article titled “At its two-year anniversary, the bipartisan infrastructure law continues to rebuild all of America” that also links to a White House website where you can see funding locations and active projects. Please do more research before making this kind of claim.
Exactly. This telescope is another waste of money. Who cares about x-rays in space?? Seriously. We have homeless people here right now that can use those millions of dollars. 😞
@@robertr7563 You're right, homelessness is a pressing issue. But don't forget that Chandra studies phenomena invisible to the naked eye, helping us understand black holes and the universe's evolution. It's research helps us to develop real-world technology and inspires future scientists.
It's a separate issue from homelessness, but scientific progress benefits us all.
Clearly this is a bargain! For the price of a single fighter jet we further the knowledge of x-rays for all of humanity. Congress needs to fund this ASAP.
The day the lobbyism system is outlawed, then America will be democratic and will be able to progress in every field.
Most Congressmen aren't scientists, they're lawyers. Don't expect them to understand how valuable Science is when their careers have been based upon subjective interpretations of reality and law.
It’s not valuable at all. We as American citizens do not gain anything at all from the telescope, why should we be forced to pay for it?
@@OceanMan15_but you have no mind congress investing billions on military with your tax money?
@@OceanMan15_I'm pretty sure someone ignorant will say this about half of scientific research that is not immediately applicable to daily life.
@@imperfectmammal2566 if it means we won't be attacked then yeah
@@OceanMan15_ Look up "EXTINCTION LEVEL EVENT", then come back and tell us about how an X-ray telescope is not valuable at all, and "we", because you're apparently speaking for yourself, do not gain anything from it.
In other words, sit down and let the adults talk.