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Originally Posted by Farang
Michio Kaku commentary:
I don't get it... The US gov refuses to spend a couple hundred million on a better telescope to track near-Earth objects, yet has no problem funding the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, which cost way more than the total funding of NASA since it's inception in 1958. People really should stop playing with guns and use the money for more important stuff 
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Why is it always the US that "has" to spend the money? Ok yea we are the guys with the biggest stick, so yes it's ok that we carry the burden of having to pay the keep the stick sharpened.
However there are lots of other countries in this planet that could very well take up being top dogs on being protectors of Earth from evil asteroids and flip the bill for finding and tracking them.
Everything shouldn't always be left at the feet of the US to do the heavy lifting. Then have everyone bitch because they don't like the way we did it.