What if NASA had the US Military's Budget?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 12 ม.ค. 2017
- In this video we do a little speculating! What could NASA do with the US military's massive 600 billion dollar annual budget?
EDIT: Made a little mistake at 0:29...I pressed the greater than sign when it should be less than. My apologies!
Edit 2: I have also realized that I took NASA's budget percentage from the TOTAL United States annual budget, not the DISCRETIONARY budget like I used for the military. It's still a very small percentage, but I apologize nonetheless.
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The only way NASA will get the military's budget, is if politicians found out aliens were communists with oil reserves.
Will Ver Schneider
America would go apeshit and build 5 deathstars.
They dont have the money. Look it up. To make 1 deathstar costs a little over 100 trillion dollars.
WackyTraveler
It was s joke...
Will Ver Schneider that's so funny because its true
This is like the best comment I have ever read on this site XD. I wonder how much they would get if they were black gay muslim communists with oil reserves ^^.
I wish every war was a space race...
TheRandomHat JF it would look like star wars
TheRandomHat JF For real. No more soldiers out killing each other, just intense scientific competition that ultimately benefits us all
well that'd be all good if we wern't fighting with people who are still savages in a way. the last one was with an equally technologically capable country.. not a religious ideology xD
Space Shuttle Door Gunner
i wish the space race was real.....
"I love you Elon Musk"
That didn't age well
Really didn’t.
File under "aged like milk," yeah.
what did Elon Musk do? I'm abit out of the loop.
@@lieutenantfalcon5936 this video should give you an idea on how bad of a person he really is
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@@feosty5526 I watched the video. I understand now, I can see why people truly hate him.
As someone who found this channel after it pivoted to political content, seeing one of their videos featuring the words "I love you, Elon Musk' was a bit of a shocker
i cant say i blame him either. Back when i was less political, i saw Elon and thought him a genius as well. SpaceX, paypal, etc. little did i know how wrong i was about him
why would it? people change their opinions as long as they learn stuff
Ikr^^ then again 5 years ago I was a Musk fan too. IDK is easy to like someone involved with pushing any rocket tech and electric cars... then I learned more about who Musk was as a person
@@kumaflamewar6524 yep, same here. Turns out he’s an absolute fraud who is no different from the other billionaires who exploit their workers to amass their inconceivably high amount of money. Capitalism at its best :p.
@@emanuelneagu14 that's exactely why it's surprising.
If NASA had the military's budget then Star Trek would be a *documentary.*
An old historical documentary.
Von Neely No, it wouldn't. NASA long ago departed from true improvisation and thinking outside the box. Private organisations are the ones which will do it, because they're driven by profit. NASA lost all sense of adventure by becoming obsessed with relatively trivial and 'safe' missions.
Yes, because every time they fail their funding is cut and all missions are put on hold for years at a time. Just look at the shuttle accidents.
NASA has a lot of cool ideas and missions, but with a low budget it has to choose 1 out of a dozen proposals, and it always chooses the cheaper, more "safe" missions because otherwise it might get its funding cut again and put more lives at risk. And if an adventurous mission doesn't produce visible results, i.e. results that have immediately obvious benefits, the mission itself will be deemed a waste of time and they will told to pull out.
So yes. NASA seems boring now, but it's still doing important (though not exciting in the public eyes) research. With a bigger budget however, that will change. Already, they have been given the mission to get to Europa by 2022 with a submarine (one of President Obama's last orders) with quite a significant amount of money attached.
Agreed, HG. NASA's management is full of red tape and very little in the way of thinking outside the proverbial box.
and that red tape has _nothing_ to do with the restricted budget and constant negativity regarding their value to society? of course not. /s
imagine if the whole world worked together for space travel...
Skeptical fryIf If we all united in the industrial revolution, then we would've become a class 2 civilization already
Skeptical fry ESA & NASA are already working together but both are underfunded.
+MikelG00 ,The cultural globalization has already started a long time ago and the speed of its progress is only increased with inventions such as the internet. This is because physical distances and boundaries are becoming more and more irrelevant and different cultures are interacting with each other more and more closely, which means they inevitably share aspects of themselves between each others. I speculate that with enough time, assuming we haven't destroyed ourselves, different human cultures will have homogenized their cultural differences far enough so that they will no longer feel the need to remain as separate countries and will eventually unite all humankind in a single world encompassing government.
this is what I hope for
And then there are people who thinks Earth is flat, I think I know why humans can't advance as a species anymore
"i love you elon musk" oh how things can change in just 4 short years.
Elon musk: I sent a car to the moon
NASA: we can't even send a rocket there.
@@N3gr0bitch What world are you living in
@@N3gr0bitch fym nasa cant send a rocket to the moon they did in like 1969
@@N3gr0bitch”well, safely, at least”
@@N3gr0bitch elon never sent a car to the moon, he sent his car to low earth orbit
Do not agree with throwing money at private operations. They'll privatize the benefits, and squeeze as much profit from the venture as possible. Also, I think your Mars plans are terrifically optimistic. That said, you made a great argument. You also did a great job of explaining the insanity of the situation.
Dude, the guy would have ripped his old self apart for that, so you are not alone.
@@YourLocalMairaaboo aside from the Elon part, can't see how his old self was very wrong.
Throwing money at government operations can also be corrupted and the money handed over privately
@@wladynoszhighlights5989a perfect example is our military budget. I watched a 60 minutes interview and an example was an oil switch NASA paid around $350 for but our military paid over $10k. Price gouging from monopolized corporations without oversight and most within the ranks were apart of it all. Its extremely bad how much fraud, waste, and abuse happens through the military budget which John Stewart brought attention to earlier this year.
@@chamberlain85terrible example. If you watch that video the first problem is he shows 2 completely different parts they even have different part numbers likely completely different manufacturers because how different the part numbers are which change from company to company and the guy doesn’t show any invoices. Years ago there was an accusation about the military spending $600 on one hammer but in reality it was one order of a bunch of hammers. If someone was scamming they wouldn’t put one hammer for $600 or 1 oil switch for 10,000 if the switch really only costs a few hundred they would put 50 hammers and 50 oil switches so when someone sees the invoice they don’t think to look into it because it looks legit. You can’t believe everything because the media tells you and shouldn’t make a decision on something without taking everything into consideration.
Mars: babe come over
NASA: dad won't let me
A strange oddly accurate assessment. Kinda weird how accurate yet weird it is XD
I would like but u have 69 so......
Nice
Ok
Mars:Fine... Lets break up i have space x
mars: im home alone
nasa: i made a rocket that moves 83 times the speed of light
It's weird how we're more focused on fighting ourselves than becoming more than ourselves.
yes those threats directly toward our way of life is paranoia the USA is the best country on earth and has achieved more than any other by setting aside personal interest to reach a common goal and no other country is like us and never will be stop acting like defending ourselves from them is a bad thing we achieve more this way
shado w I think we should cut funding just not that much I think instead of 50% we would be fine with 40% or 35% I don’t know I just feel like you are too anti military and think I’m anti science
It all falls back to money
its about priorities, ofc everything would be so much easier if earth was one nation.
I can’t tell you how wrong you are with that statement.
Did I just see the words "I love you Elon musk" on a second thought video? 😂
That sent shivers down my spine
@@MetalBansheeX What a pathetically weak person you are then
I also saw as well. Good times those back then...
back when elon musk was popular and beloved, how times have changed lol
seeing second thought praise elon musk is a weird thing now
even weirder now
@@jawadalam5014it gets weirder by the day
What did he do?
@@ruairi9109 Just a couple of dumb decisions losing 50+billion dollars
@@ruairi9109we all know what he did.
U.S. Government: We can’t spare any more money for space travel
NASA: There’s oil and gold on mars
U.S.: We can spare some more money
US would be the first to invade mars then😂
Elliot Reviews also for a gas Called (CO2) its a green house gas used in Terraforming Mars so it will be Earth like so astronauts can walk around without a space suit because first they have developed glass domes
stolen
*Disbands the coast guard*
@@Asr.- does it matter
4:01
NASA: We want to go to Mars
USA: We don't have enough money
NASA: We found oil there
USA: Here's 600 billion dollars now off you go
Hahahahahahaha
Jaeden Soon Nice
Hahaha this is great
🤣
imagine "we found oil and aliens willing to do free labor"
2:30
2017 second thought: i love you elon musk
2021 second thought: musk is not exempt from the benefits of a wealthy family and exploits manual labour in LICS
its cool to see their progression into the world of politics
maturity😸
Well that's the general view of elon musk he went from advancing human civilization to spreading propaganda
And now he’s known as a rich lonely man
So what I understood Is of they had the money we would have the Space fleet or Ender and every planet would be divided by country
It makes me so sad.... It's getting harder to be hopeful about the future when we spend so much time and money fighting one another. Love your channel!
Military with 600B Budget- destroying the plant we live on
NASA with 18B budget: finding a new one for us to live on
@@truthmartyr found the flat earther...
@@truthmartyr the same thing.
This makes me feel so upset.
So true
Yes, I love living on a *p l a n t*
Imagine how big NASA's budget would be if they discovered oil on mars.
Remember, we don't need to run out of oil for there to be a catastrophe. We just need to run out of affordable oil for that to happen. An ounce of oil from Mars would cost about a million dollars on Earth. So it would take you maybe 30 million dollars to drive to work one way. Can you afford that?
sadly, most people only think things through halfway, Paul is correct, its economically inviable to transmit resources from space to the earth without it being extremely expensive.
There are seas of hydrocarbons on Titan
Not big, because of all the oil left on Earth. Not to mention how absurd it would be to transport oil from Mars before using our own oil, coal, natural gas, and oh, unlimited wind, solar and hydro power. Crazy, right?
The123cool321
then get busy laying a pipeline from there, to here. Let's just hope you don't run into any Space Indian burial grounds along the way though.
I love you Elon Musk
Well, that aged like milk
u mean second thought hated elon?
@@goutamboppana961 He does now.
@@vhb4594 oh
@@vhb4594 wait why? because of bitcoin thing?
@@BigDaddy-jv8ms Because he's rich
If the us spent their military budget on NASA, star trek would be a documentary by now
this comment should have more likes
Yep
It would be a history lesson
Flavio What if SpaceX got that budget?
ed tyler Elon musk would buy California, secede from the US and say good riddance motherfuckers
It's all because of the pvp system in our world, that makes pve progress harder.
Alex Heller lol! Everybody loves pvp. Some players just sit around town and pvp all day.
lol pretty much this
Alex Heller deep. But right. We are just playing pvp and we haven't finished the story mode yet lmao
it's so annoying when you try to just survive and the other guy murders you for your survival points handed out by this player built system called the government.
ikr... but i heard they are making a major update that they are calling "The Final Frontier"... thats the only spoiler they have released so far tho
Humanity has yet to transition from the predatory phase of our evolution to the collaborative phase.
The only comment which is worthy enough to be pinned.
Wild that it's over a trillion now, only 5 years later
Now do “What if the military had NASA’s budget”
I'm pretry sure they'd still be fine. We got enough shit already.
@Daniel Simmons
The more stuff we make, the more provoked other nations get. So what happens? World War 3.
Adam Lopez That isn't really an applicable argument to this complex of a situation. The world isn't that cut and dry, you wouldn't be able to determine such a complex response to an immensely multifaceted issue such as this. In addition the massive budget cut that would result from the Military Receiving NASA's funding would be so great that it would severely undermine any sort of maintenance required to keep even the most funded mental parts of the Military afloat. It's not just about creating more it's about maintaining what we have, and even if you are for a budget cut, which is a completely reasonable thing, one of this scale would have catastrophic impacts as we as a nation would be incapable of defending from almost any major nation and would be almost useless in providing aid to any allies of needed.
@@masster87production wow!👏 That's really good!!!
They would die in 25years cuz they cant make new shit
we could probe the hell out of Uranus
I'm good m8
Hell yeah! Earthlings are the mexicans of solar system
You don't need 600 billion to do that to me.
Just a glove and plenty of lube.......actually might need 600 billion for the lube, my mates always say I'm a tight ass.
😏
EDI: ...
It's weird to think JT Chapman liked Elon Musk
we must hold this over his head forever
2:30 Haha, that "I love you Elon Musk" has aged like fine Milk
Yep, I keep these videos up as a reminder that everyone can and should change their opinions when presented with new information
@@SecondThought Yeah. Been really enjoying your recent vids :)
Oh so he answered
@@SecondThought yes it can be very hard to sometimes but doing so is important :D
NASA-we need a higher budget
AMERICA-we don’t have enough money
NASA-there could be oil
AMERICA- TAKE WHATEVER YOU WANT
John Cooley lol
No
Ken Skid its a joke u fat merican
@@AMadScientist whoosh
@@AMadScientist im from LA you fucknugget. learn to take a joke
“Pesky communists” “I love you, Elon Musk”
* *fast forward four years* *
*BASED*
crazy seeing a before and after of his radicalization lol
@@DumplingDoodle based radicalisation
@@kingclement5821 for sure
3:52 SECOND THOUGHT KNEW ABOUT THE COVID VARIANT BACK IN 2017. "youre a wizard harry"
OmG Covid on Pluto
WHY AREN'T WE FUNDING THIS?!?!?!?!
Second Thought we could colonise space and we're not doing it. ARE WE RETARDED?
Not unless the world is unified in some manner and that is not going to happen soon.
TRUMP
Trump wants to.
No-one questions the $38 BILLION given to lsrael military but people find spending money in Science a waste.
It actually makes me mad how little we invest in space.
This video is very misleading and could be retitled as what if NASA could instantly construct things that work perfectly on the first attempt
@@noahogrady5274 Uh... no... There were _estimated_ time frames and costs based on actual constructions. And still are you suggesting we shouldn't invest more in space? How is changing the title relevant at all. Or was that just meant to be a general public comment and you just responded accidentally?
It’s because there is no space and the earth is flat. You can’t spend money on something that doesn’t exist.
Lol. I have a flat earth shirt and sometimes i'll walk around and ask my teachers "WHERE'S THE PROOF!?"
the government is reluctant to spend more money on space because its not a necessity. it wont benefit the population for multiple decades no matter how much money they put into it so we cant expect them to prioritize space expediction
6 million ppl know you had an elon phase.....but how far you've come!
Hahaha Elon phase XD
Yeeeah... "I love you Elon Musk"... Damn the past 5 Years were a horrible awakening :-D
Did you say... FASTER WIFI!?!?
Ryan Nguyen same
Ryan Nguyen Your WIFI doesn't come from Satellites. The internet is carried by underground cables.
Oh, ok, I get it now
You misread my comment. I never said WIFI was carried by underground cables. I said WIFI was not carried by satellites, true, and that the internet is carried by underground cables, also true.
Pfft, with $600 B/year, we probably could set up some form of global Wi-Fi/Li-Fi network.
Imagine living in a world where NASA's projects would be completed 30 times faster
That would, in my opinion, be wonderful.
It makes me depressed
Makes me sad how we would already be colonizing other planets if wars were to not exist
@@boiiboii6310 how so?
@@boiiboii6310 and why is that
Hahahah "I love you Elon Musk" from Second Thought... How things have changed for the good on this channel now
2:32 "I love you Elon Musk"
That one didn't age quite so well...
How so?
@@yedder7628 the creator of the video is a communist
@@bucket6386 and
@@yedder7628 and communists don't like rich people such as elon musk...
@@bucket6386 He is a socialist not a communist but ok
"I love you, Elon Musk."
...I'm surprised you haven't taken this down yet.
Good to be honest ya know
NASA: we really need a new space ship
America: NO WE NEED MORE NUKES
NASA: The space ship will be able to shoot nukes
America: Say no more
Avery, and thus space force was made.
THIS GUY PREDICTED THE FUTURE!
Thanks for copying my comment mate!
See... this is how you sell your vision . You have to give your sponsors what they want .
That’s Kim jong un
NASA -- We need more money.
AMERICA -- We don't have enough money.
MILITARY -- We need one more aircraft carrier to play.
AMERICA -- SAY NO MORE.
so true lol
Rather have an aircraft carrier fuck Mars
@@timkoleci1800 idiot.
I'd rather have Mars and a spacecraft carrier that can bombard targets from space. I don't trust humans or aliens.
Some people are realistic. If taxpayers wanted to go to space instead of protect foreign assets they would vote in people who think that. Reality is most people dont.
then: I love you, Elon Musk
now: Are you really free under capitalism?
Based
yeah this channel is 🤡
It's interesting coming back to such old videos!
Why can't the world just have peace and NASA just have money
Because humans don't reproduce asexually, making us all different.
SmokeySpace, because that's now how things work, people don't like something that someone is doing so they fight about it!
Alex Siemers, naw it's all right soon all Humans will be Gay due to Trends and we will all die out.
A.J. Deutsch i think its far to late for that too happen. We are already overpopulated and its only going to get worse. By 2085 we'll be fully out of phosphorus.
Because your only defense is pity for not being able too fight back?
600B to Nasa and Space: Mass Effect
600B to Military and Murica: Metro 2033
So true
I WANT MASS EFFECT
Sir, you won the internet with this comment!
i prefer STALKER instead of Metro
Larry the Lobster More like Fallout 4
600b for distorted inhuman faces. yep.
It’s funny to see old you saying we should fund space X, I can tell you’ve changed a lot lol
In a good way btw (:
@@mangosaurusrex3416 Does he not like SpaceX anymore? I notice his recent content has been on socialist views and criticising America's capitalist policies.
@@Oropher420 more like he hates Elon musk and I LOVE him for it
The Elon and SpaceX comment aged like milk lol
Scientists: *noooo! you can just keep wasting your incredible wealth in financing the military instead of using it to finance a space programs that could make huge advancements in science or in decent public medicine*
The U.S Government: *haha gun go pew pew*
Lmao
The U.S Government: *we need more aircraft carriers because of this god damn commies*
Scientists: *it isn't the '60's over here dude*
Venus -
The U.S Government: *Yeah we know, that is why you ain’t getting money to go to space anymore*
You need to remember that a lot of NASA budget was cut and transferred to welfare for Black americans after they protested the Moon Landing. So they are to blame, too
not just public medicine but unlimited resources and what not
Well like Tupac said, "they got money for wars but they can't feed the poor", never mind space, lol
They can feed themselves
@@abeldido368 why about who can't work?
@@abeldido368 youre a selfish person
Bruh. If we split the budget of the military by half. Then reuse the other half by giving half of it to NASA and the other half to help poor and homeless people. Boom.
If you go hungry in the United States of America and you have absolutely no disabilities (that social security and welfare cover by the way) you have only yourself to blame. Nowhere else in the world is the opportunity for betterment more attainable than in the United States.
Second Thought 2017: I love you, Elon Musk
Second Thought 2023: I hate you, Elon Musk
2:33 that aged like an ice cube on a frying pan...
Came here to say that...
NASA: we really need a new space ship
America: NO WE NEED MORE NUKES
NASA: The space ship will be able to shoot nukes
America:Where do we sign
Brieen xDDD
this one is actually funny xD
Brieen you my friend...are good... 👐👏👐👏👐👏
No se diga más
This is good and original! I like XD
Just imagine every country in the world took 50% of their military budjet off and put it into science...
Juubes may I say new Zealand has a tiny military budget ( like 1%) so halving ours would make us total sitting ducks
Scott menson You already are
That's funny. You think you aren't sitting cucks now!
Just 5% of all the nations would be great.
Carter Vezurk
as you go through life you may come to realize that all your hopes don't add up to a hill of beans.
Watching this video is like seeing Second Thought's baby pictures.
I was so confused by this video because I assumed it was one he just put out. So glad to see it's an old video from 5 years ago!
Let’s make a gofundme for NASA. They must be broke
Mario exactly our only chances of getting to Mars is SpaceX
@Mario are you a ignorant fuck? yes.
@@Mando-vp6gz I agree with Mario that shit definately needs to be done on earth aswell, this isnt sustainable in any sense. But i also want to see humanity reach for the stars again, perhaps that might rekindle some peoples passion for life and what can be achieved in their lifetimes
For space x
Mario did u watch the vid?
can we all just promise to be cool and not fight for a bit so we can go to space?
well only if russians will stop attacking everyone
DarkPaul1ux Gaming dont you mean americans? America is the greatest threat to world peace by a mile and we have had boots on the ground in dozens of countries since only the 90s
DarkPaul1ux Gaming where do you see the Russians attacking Everyone?
yes please, and once we are in space we can have space war =D #ironic
Try convincing North Korea lol
Imagine if the whole world worked together for the world
i’m telling you right now people, if the world leaders decided to unite and focus on space travel with the same innovation they have today, we would’ve been an interplanetary species by now
Lol the US would only spend it to make a Death Star.
Aaron Villanueva I think that would violate the Geneva convention or whatever international treaty governs space
g d x a c r e Nope, a space laser or chibor crystal beam is not listed as a WMD, so it's fair game.
The US government did actually respond to a request for that. Look it up.
ah, cool
What planet would we want to even destroy?!
4:39 THATS ME
My profile pic is in the ocean
why exactly
Albino_ Jellyfish holy shit
Dude you are now famous
Albino_ Jellyfish I fucking died
Mohamed Choyoua How did you write your comment then? 🤔 Lol
Ah, the pre-radicalization arc
the "I love you Elon" didn't age well :))
How so
I would immediately upgrade the canteen at JPL with an additional microwave, the old one is starting to smell. Maybe we could even have a blender and a box of free crunchy snacks.
Alright, had me laughing for a minute there.
rock3tcat (ⵙⴰⵔⵓⵅ) I would like a flat screen 70" at Goddard plz
superROTV The bicycles at LHC are single gear. My grandfather worked at The Atomic Research Establishment , Aldermaston and even his bike had 3 gears!
idk why but that just sounds adorable! i'm now imagining those words coming out of Starchy from adventure time.. floating around in a little space suit...
rock3tcat (ⵙⴰⵔⵓⵅ) Holy shit based scientist brings the banter
Too bad the world hates itself
SuperGamer5102 the world doesn't hate its self we do we ruined it
SuperGamer5102 The world must be cleansed and reunited before we come together.
What the fuck are you doing reading my username? You Racist
Fahad Shahid I'm not racist in the slightest, you prejudice illiterate piece of shit
White people are being blamed for everything everywhere and their culture is being crushed from the inside
What the fuck are you doing reading my username?
I was defending white people, its not OK to generalize a whole group because of some people.
I thought you were bashing white people
2:33
That middle bit didn't age very well
"I love you Elon musk" aged like my X account
Ah humans stunting our progress because we're scared of each other
it is almost like we have 4,000+ years of recorded history to teach us not to trust anyone...
Ah humans, stunting our progress because they willing consume disingenuous information and make rather stupid opinions from it.
research the difference between total and discretionary spending. it might open your eyes.
Shandwen history also teaches us that societies with more trust fares better.
Also, wars exist because leaders indoctrinate their people.
Not only that, kwazoo. The US spends a massive amount on space exploration. Those neat little graphics, with the helicopters and carriers? That's the same picture for space spending. The US spent, in 2014, more than the rest of the world combined on space exploration. Between the EU, Russia, China, Japan, and India, the only countries/organizations involved in manned space flight(I don't count the Azerbaijani Space Agency, for example), spent roughly 15.55 billion USD on their space agencies. The US, by comparison, spent *only* 17.6 billion dollars. We all like the EU, right? They're great for science, super tolerant, very progressive. They spend money in smart ways. As a percentage of GDP, in 2014, they spent .02%GDP on space. The US, on the other hand, spent .1%. 5 times the percent GDP spent on space. Still think the US doesn't spend enough on space? We can solidly place the US at the top of the list for dedication to space exploration by spending; why don't we scold literally any other country in the world, if we're looking to increase space funding?
*note, Canada does have astronauts, but in saying the US spends more than the world put together on space, while I didn't count Canada in the global total, despite their being involved in spaceflight via other nation's programs, I figure the Canadians don't spend the couple billion dollars needed to tip the world's spending towards being higher than the US's.
mjolnir what about the Mayans? Or the Aztecs, or Native Americans, or...you get the idea
Imagine if nasa could get at least a 100 billion dollar budget..
musk for president
Jeff bezos could do that but he would have to give like most of his money so yeah
Dadafruta Yt channel he makes like over $50 billion a year. Pretty sure he can spare some zeros
@MaximeGaming how
@@alixir3010 not in cash it's all in stocks
Its wild to see an I love you Elon or a positive view on SpaceX in a Second Thought video.
the channel really changed now
This video is finely orhestrated :-) Music and content come together in a fine way.
i think at least 1% of military funding should be moved to NASA.
Jj Cowling 10% more like, that'd almost double the N.A.S.A budget.
it would almost quarduple
*90%
10 to 1 would be a great thing, the US should advance its military ressources rather than buying more.
It's too bad congress is a convoluted mess
Jesus, I knew the US military was a powerhouse but this is insanity. Kind of makes me angry to see what could be accomplished if we all just got along and worked together. Imagine if every country put their military budget towards science. Great video though, you earned a new subscriber.
Well, we get along together a lot better since the American military occupies Earth.
But hey. All we have to do it to double our productivity, and a current development rates.... that could happen!
+Arthur O'Brien I agree, the U.S. has definitely played a big part in this relatively peaceful period since WWII, we've had some wars, but nothing that even comes close to WWII. If it weren't for NATO Russia would have probably conquered most of Europe by now. It's just kind of sad when you think about all we could accomplish if we all got along.
bucky13
Yes I just don't like to ponder it because it's a dangerous dream in my opinion. It's like saying: "Think about all the dope you could buy with your rent money!"
Unfortunately, we will never really set all the ressources we need for security free. But we can be thankful that we live in a time were we can even think about using _some_ of our ressources for different things than basic needs.
It's because the US does not maintain a strictly defensive military like other countries do. Other countries tend to follow a logic of "be about as good as your enemy" to prevent invasions while at the same time not having to engage in a costly arms race. However the US follows a logic that is more like "be prepared to literally fucking anything", where anything includes invading the rest of the world and stomping everything. The US military is not defensive - it's a 'we can do whatever the fuck we want' statement to the rest of the world.
My issue with this is that - besides the questionable political choice - it's a completely imaginary purpose for a military to have. The chances of that kind of power ever being needed or wanted are pretty much as close to zero as you can possibly get, kinda like that exponential fraction equation from high school; that makes it overall a waste of money in my view, especially because with the existence of nukes the kind of bully behavior that such a military would allow is not really possible against anyone but tiny countries for proxy wars... which do not require 8000 tanks anyways.
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I need it. Because I'm not an US citizen and my country does not have a capable military.
The US military *does* have a defensive purpose, it defends half of the world, and lessens the need for other states to militarize.
A quote that sums it up really well I think is this:
"[..]Because if we don't have them[nukes], then Japanese will start building them like Toyotas, and unlike North Koreas nuclear weapons *they will work*."
Now what's easier, prevent nuclear war with 2 actors, or prevent nuclear war with 100 nuclear actors?
Also, the US military acts preemptively, which is controversial, and probably should be, but supporting that policy can be rationally defended.
I love this channel im sorry I slept on your older videos for so long
The "I love you elon musk" at 2:40 didn't age well. I also was blindsided by the man until he turned from a quirky philanthropist to the crazy, stuck up tax neo wwe all know and loathe today. At least spacex is still cool.
There's a rather bitterly cynical observation that many NASA employees make in their private conversations, saying: "Since 1969, no federal-level office-holder has won an election by telling the voters, 'I wanna give more money to NASA'."
My father worked at White House Communications back in the late 70s and through most of the 80s. One of his supervisors had previously worked for NASA during the early 70s, at the end of the Apollo program and during the lag time between it's cancellation and the development of the STS. He knew of my interest in the space program, and once told me that if, for only one decade, the space program could be funded at a level just one-sixth that of the annual defense budget, NASA could fund multiple LEO space stations, a permanent lunar base, and be well on it's way to accomplishing a crewed mission to Mars. He said that the astronaut corps would number in the thousands, and several hundred would be involved in active space missions at any given time. In addition, NASA could launch and conduct a slew of robotic exploratory probes, landers, and rovers to the outer planets and their moons, along with research into next-generation propulsion systems, leaving chemical rockets behind in favor of nuclear-thermal, ion, and plasma-powered propulsion systems. Furthermore, (and here's the kicker) was that fully 50% of that one-sixth defense budget diversion would require nothing more than withholding payments to defense contractors that were chronically delinquent on their contract obligations.
I was reading with passion until end but last sentences broke my heart.
thats so sad
@Ot Skorzeny if we could use the resources of our solar sistem we could help humanity, for example the moon.
Except mars, going to mars is dumb as fuck.
Dinosaur 1978 how is Mars a not so good place to go to, yeah it’s a harsh environment, barely any trace of magnetic field, little to no atmosphere, but it has traces of water, ice in the poles, eventually when we have the technology we can terraform the planet. Maybe in the thousands of years later. Even then, Mars is the gateway to the outer planets and the asteroid belt, filled with lumps of rock rich in metals that we can extract to build more spacecraft, thus more missions or take it back to earth. It’s because Mars has a considerably lower gravitational pull than Earth, making rockets lighter and carry less fuel to escape the planet, or even then it could be replaced by electromagnet launchers.
@Renagadde IKR i never judged nothing, what i'm refering to is that creating a permanent base (if it is possible) it's dumb.
if nasa had the us military budget death star can become a thing
Edit: this comment blew up wow
Not quite
Why does everyone want to build the death star? Everyone has seen Star Wars, everyone knows it's weakness. Besides, it wasn't even good in the movies. In essense, one tiny ship killed it both times. Given the amount of resources it would take to build it, you could build much better stuff.
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That's what happens when the military says "NASA, want sum $$$? I got a cool project for you. You will be free to use the money on whatever you want that would directly speed up the deadline to our project"
Yeti_Melon a star destroyer would be cool though
Man slipped in a ilove you elon musk. Bet he would like that one back!
ah yes, that "i love you, elon musk" sure did age well
This should be made into a series, comparing it to the budget of medical research and health services, public education, agriculture, research into safe and cheap energy sources, research on carbon capture technology, etc.
www.nationalpriorities.org/budget-basics/federal-budget-101/spending/
The military is actually only 15% of our total budget.
I think the 2 trillion plus a year we spend on "freebies" would be a better measure of how stupid and manipulated we are.
ok how bout we reduce it you fuck tard.... theres a good godamn reason ouyr military budget is high.... Believe it or not there are people wanting to kill us and take over the world... we arent belligerant apes, humans are..
TheLastGamerNerd But you already have twice as much superior military tech as the next 20 countries combined, none of which have any interest in attacking you. Why the fuck do you need more new stuff? To fight ISIS? Your existing military could bend 'em over a barrel with extreme ease if you weren't so busy using them as pawns to fight Assad.
The entire US military could literaly invade and annex the entire middle east with relative ease, many times over.
We should spend our money on a fully functioning Death Star
And make Mexico pay for it!!! LOL.
Why is it all I can see is Consuela going around cleaning the place.Thanks -Obama- Family Guy.
And make the Rebel scum pay for it!
Blaze MacArthur the more you think about this comment, the funnier it gets
JTSharkAttack Agreed.
It'd bankrupt the globe, let alone the US.
"I love you, Elon Musk"
-Ye Olde Pre-Based Second Thought of Yore
That aged well... now he has facts and hates the guy.
You make awesome videos brother. Thank you for your time and care
Imagine looking in the sky at the Moon and seeing the city of "mooniapolis"
hahaha
Lunopolis is a better word
Lunapolis
@@aureavita8653 nah mooniapolis sound cuter
Moonisota
NASA: Look there is oil on mars
America: Hold my beer.
Andreas not possible for any fossil fuel on Mars. Because fossil fuels, well...come from fossils of ancient plants.
But besides that, there are things much better than oil. For example, helium 3 on the moon, more than a million times more powerful than oil.
Samuel Li it’s a joke....
@samuel li r/wooosh
Hold my beer?
@@kerbodynamicx472 jesus when you don't have a sense of humor
"Fund spacex; i love you elon" lmfao omg. Big ups to you leaving this up. No one starts a finished product and you make such important content now. What a change! Good on you comrad! Living the example: You don't have to always be right, but ALWAYS be thirsty to learn more!
That mention of Elon Musk aged perfectly.
Why don’t they just conduct their research through Kerbal Space Program?
HappyGilmore Dude I’ve sent NASA so much video of me going to the Mun and making cool shit and they STILL won’t email me back! If they took their head out their asses I’d be the captain of the USS Enterprise now and have my kids on Mars with the Martian women. Dumbasses!
HappyGilmore they do
Haven’t you heard? It’s like a voodoo doll. When you “accidentally” crash an extremely excessive 5 billion dollar rocket 5 billion dollars that NASA is in possession of will simultaneously explode because they’ve “accidentally” started wasting their lives away doing that sort of stuff like normal people. Oh and also the Kerbals, they’ll come back from the dead to haunt you.
*BOOSTERS*
If NASA rocket can’t get to the moon why do they not add MOAR BOOSTERS!
If we had world peace, we would be watching TH-cam in space.
If we switched US military budget with NASAs we would have world peace.
Damir Radoncic Because the world was so peaceful before the US started building a military right?
why do we need to make more of these weapons anyway? we already apparently have a stock of them and it's not like we're in a war, and if there is a war we have enough already to basically destroy the entire human population so why are we still spending to make more...
Trophonix you know sometimes people like the major of a city like to give their relatives, whom are surprise surprise in the construction industry multi million dollar projects. Just happens. Ya know.
Baljit Billing No we wouldn't be as advanced as we are...
I'd also argue that exploration inspires greater technological advancements than military advancements.
2:28 oof…
I guess this is before you took the breadpill
this makes me so sad. Why does the human race have to be so keen on war, rather than exploration and science
lolzman122 The fact that we keep letting politicians, religion, and corporations lead us is a big part of that. We need a completely new global system. One we've never had before.
Aren't you being a wee bit ignorant? There has been no such thing as peace. Lol. #queuehistorylesson.
JustSaiyanSteve Before 1903 there were no such thing as airplanes either. History is not dictatorial. Ultimately, each generation makes its own decisions.
It's in our genes. A remnant of the day when aggressiveness meant survival.
The problem is that if Country X (in this case the USA) wasn't so keen on wars, Country Y could become keen on wars and wipe the Country X out. Of course society is better for everyone when everybody simply trusts everybody, but society is worse for one side when it trusts someone that abuses that trust. Instead we just settle for a stalemate where everybody wastes money and manpower trying to conquer each other. It's the sad reality of human interactions. It parallels the prisoner's dilemma.
Although the Cold War did get us to the moon, alongside both World Wars being massive leaps in human technology. Another answer to this question could be motivation, humans don't truly want knowledge; they want safety.
The entire world and Scientific Community: 600 Billion USD could actually change the trajectory of humanity EVERY YEAR, find a new planet for life, discover stars, explore physics and Cosmology, and change life as we know it-
US Military: the ting go skkkrrraaa
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lmaoooo
Learn to spell right before roast us
Jack Foley learn some grammar before you comment
Screm Ah oh lol u right u right sorry abt that comment to I was having a bad day that day
When the United States government finds out there's oil on Mars.
I like how much of a U-turn second thought did with Elon musk although I agree with it
Next do: "What would happen if we gave the developers of Roblox the U.S Military Budget?"
ZeroSevenTen All hell would break loose lol
since when do you need a budget on roblox
Corktail That's the joke lol
retarded idea.
ZeroSevenTen They would probs pocket it
We should create a space agency that works together with the rest of the world, each country giving an annual amount of money. I'm sure its budget would be far over 600b/yr. Then that would be a true space exploration in which no one would be scared that one country will beat them to it first for the entire world is working together to reach the same goal.
Too bad humanity's pride and greed is too powerful for this to happen, any time soon anyway.
you sir, are the future this world needs
Why nobody mentioned this before?
I wish.
Indeed the ISS was built with the help of multiple countries. However that is one space station. Imagine the possibilies if everyone worked together to go to Mars, build bases on the moon, explore other planets with the possibility of life such as Europa, we could be exploring space within the next few decades, we could colonize all of the solar system (Safe for mercury.)
Canceralert yea, Kinda like the UN
One thing ai note is your delivery is far more relaxed in these older videos. It is a moderately better listening experience
"None of those pesky communist" Oh, past JT, if you only knew.