NASA vs. Cigarettes: A Numbers Game

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People often criticize the amount of money spent on space exploration. Sometimes it’s well-meaning friends and family who say that that money is wasted, and would be better spent on solving problems here on Earth. In fact, that’s a whole cultural meme. You see it played out over and over in the comments section whenever […]

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The folks at JPL certainly liked to chain-smoke those puny Delta II sounding rockets Dan Goldin gave away like lollipops.