rvallee
Senior Member (Voting Rights)
Because the money was there. NASA spending around this time was enormous because of the Soviets.
At its peak for the moonshot, NASA captured 4.5% of federal spending, which today would amount to about $170B per year.
At $170B per year, we would solve ME in 2-5 years. Zero doubt about that, it's actually more than the total historical AIDS spending.
Total effort is will * funding * competence. We rate almost zero on all counts, sadly for competence because deniers aggressively involved themselves instead of actual competent people. Failure is a choice.
Though obviously we would never get such humongous budgets but a sizeable fraction of the AIDS budget, say 20% or 30%, would actually make fiscal sense as the losses during the 3 decades of psychosomatic nonsense amount to more than the entire moonshot, funded with barely nothing and much of it actually wasted on crap like personality psychometrics.
Actually want to calculate this: at around $100B (very conservative estimate) in economic losses per year worldwide, since the CFS sabotage, this is comfortably over $2T in economic losses that have been pissed away by leaving us to fend for ourselves. Money that was as effectively wasted as simply taking it off bank ledgers, printing it and burning it.
Adjusted for inflation, the US spent approximately $1.32T on NASA since its inception. (peak spending was fairly short-lived and dropped down a lot after 1969)
Significantly more money than was spent for the entire lifetime of NASA was wasted by leaving us to suffer and die without support. That's the scale of the failure here, it's seriously beyond reason to keep on wasting this many lives. And to those who only care about money, our loss is also evident as more than the entire lifetime operative costs of NASA. What a stupid waste of human potential.
And this is just the last 30 years, knowledge of ME goes back 50 so the numbers are even worse than that.
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