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In reply to the discussion: Pluto Like You've Never Seen it Before [View all]chapdrum
(930 posts)but, purely in the context of Pluto photos, I think humanity has far more pressing needs for the money that was spent on this particular project.
It is somewhat disingenuous to suggest that we can prevent catastrophes...at least the instantaneous and/or rapidly moving ones.
My sense is that if firefighters are adequately (that adjective seems now inapt) funded, that NASA is, more than likely, well funded.
In the same way that we will increasingly be asked (if given that luxury at all) to choose between the lesser or least of evils in light of climate chaos, we (meaning: those we elect) must more wisely choose where our tax dollars go.
The projects you reference may or may not yield helpful results, but my sense is that there isn't time to find out.
We can act with what we know, but not with what might be.