>>3756212NASA continues to exist because their PR people have conned Americans into allowing them to exist for four different reasons.
1. Misrepresent your cut of the federal budget by measuring your budget against the entire federal budget, rather than the discretionary budget.
2. Use vague historical anecdotes to make indefinite promises about how space exploration will usher in a Peter Josef/Star Trek style technofuture.
3. Claim incidental technological advances produced by space exploration without mentioning that this technology could have been obtained at a tiny fraction of the cost if research was directed for consumer use.
4. Look at this pretty picture!
