According to on-line NASA cheerleader Big Think the stupendous sums necessary to investigate various aspects of the universe millions of light years away may not be realized because of "unprecedented, ill-motivated budget cuts." They point out that NASA isn't just exploring space, it also "includes Earth science, heliophysics, planetary science, and astrophysics", the mastery of which our current crop of urban barbarians needs to keep the balance low on their credit card accounts. Ill-motivated budget cuts are the same as lack of money or the realization that the money needed is better spent on other things.
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An example, PRAXyS, or the Polarimeter for Relativistic Astrophysical X-ray Sources, is a small explorer/mission of opportunity that uses an X-ray telescope to explore how space’s shape and curvature has been distorted by black holes and neutron stars, along with their associated nearby magnetic fields. It's important that the distortions caused by black holes, neutron stars and magnetic fields be analyzed, probably to determine their potential for war in space. Only people engaged in this research are even capable of a basic understanding of it which their income depends upon. The general public doesn't know if they're successful or not. Much of NASA is dealing with subjects closely akin to Santa Claus or the Easter Bunny. Whatever they discover will be of zero use to humans now or in the future.
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