Should NASA's budget be increased?

[Maxwell]

Private enterprise is moving faster on space exploration at this point. I think reforming the space program is smarter than just cutting it though.

[Maxwell]

Give it 1/4th of the current military budget, plus what it already gets. We need to begin developing the technology for offworld settlement ASAP, especially if the most dire predictions about climate change follow through.

Abolish the military outright and triple NASA funds.

I'm the most liberal.

NO I AM!

[Maxwell]

If anyone can justify why NASA should even exist, let alone have its budget doubled because MUH SPACE I'd be happy to listen.

Well, certainly there a lot of things we should answer and still need answers for. Questions like Is there Life beyond this planet? My belief is that those questions are more important than just sending little probes to Mars every couple odd years. We should be sending high level drills to Europa. NASA should be re-tooled to fit these new goals.

[Maxwell]

Moon colonies are fools good. We should go straight to Mars, and there's a decent chance we will in the next 10 years. The question is will it be done haphazardly with no governmental oversight by corporations, or in a orderly fair manner by NASA and its foreign equivalents.

Mars has long been uninhabitable, and that's a fact. Was inhabitable maybe millions, billions of years ago? Yes, but since then it's simply not going to work.