"NASA and space exploration makes our lives better" isn't an axiomatic truth; it's an orthodoxy you've had inculcated in you from childhood that you've personally worked to reinforce via forming a sense of identity of oneself as Smart and Sensitive, Different From Those Jocks.
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Like yeah, could we do blue-sky research just for its own sake without some big cool project designed to publicly own other countries at its heart? Absolutely Should we do it? Most definitely Do we do it? No Will we do it? Almost certainly never
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It is this extremely played-out joke in the world of Big Tech that if you want federal funding for something you have to phrase it in a way where it could be used to kill communists (or, after the end of the Cold War, terrorists) It's an incredibly well-known political truth
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