A popular argument for cutting space spending reveals a hard truth: the money gap for ending global poverty is orders of magnitude larger than most people realize. “Imagine what we could do for the poor if we just spent NASA’s budget on them instead” is one of the most reliable lines on the internet, trotted out every time a rocket launches or a budget bill passes. It sounds like arithmetic. It is not arithmeti... [5710 chars]
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