Re: NASA Mars mission funding - better spent on paleo?

[Scott <hmwh@together.net>]

Good old Sen. Ev Dirksen...
Scott
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Marjanovic" <david.marjanovic@gmx.at>
To: "DML" <dinosaur@usc.edu>
Sent: Saturday, May 24, 2008 9:03 AM
Subject: Re: NASA Mars mission funding - better spent on paleo?


> > . . . at the risk of driving some
> > go-there-at-any-cost-damn-the-practical-gains people out there crazy,
> > could some of you describe what the funding for this mission could have
> > accomplished for your field if it had been distributed to projects here?
> > I believe the figure is around $400M (above and beyond the original
> > estimated $325M.)
>
> Four hundred pitiful megabucks? That's how much the Iraq war costs in how
> many weeks?
>
> Really, get your priorities straight. :-)
>
> And never forget: a billion here and a billion there, and pretty soon it
> adds up to real money!
>