NASA will keep the money. If NASA was actually a space program you'd probably be right. But it's not - it's a jobs program. Did you ever wonder why "mission control" is in Houston instead of the cape, or why SRBs, which could have been much safer transported by ship, were built in land-locked Utah?

Austerity? They planned to reduce the deficit by 10% in ten years and only 1% next year. Call me when they touch the debt. As it is they are still spending extravagantly.

Can we not get into that here? It always degrades into a political slugfest, and it's worse on HN because too many believe they're above politics.

You raised the subject, now you're just being rude.

I didn't say anything about the debt ceiling deal.

edit: Pointing out that NASA is not likely to keep the funding is not the same as bringing up politics. Pointing out the likely factions responsible for it would be bringing up politics, but I didn't. Because it would be better suited for a whole new submission, not a long tree here.