From Wired UK:
"Why are you spending all our money up there, when he have problems down here!"
That's often the typical cry of a US taxpayer when they see that Nasa gets about 17 billion dollars a year to play golf on the Moon and fire rockets into Saturn.
..."This year's Spinoff demonstrates once again how through productive and innovative partnerships, Nasa's aerospace research brings real returns to the American people in the form of tangible products, services and new jobs," explains Nasa Administrator Charles Bolden.
This is all well and good, but Wired is ignoring the fact that had the money been spent elsewhere by the government or, gasp, not ever been collected as taxes, other things would have been developed. No-one knows what the world would be like if there ever no NASA, but to think it would be exactly like it is minus all the NASA-related stuff is not correct.
