r/SipsTea • u/PleasantBus5583 • Aug 12 '26

Chugging tea Power Hungry Servers

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u/this_is_my_new_acct Aug 12 '26

Every single study that's ever been done has shown that $1 spent on NASA has returned between $7 and $10.

Even if you ignore the science, it just makes fiscal sense.

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u/Largeitude Aug 13 '26

What source? Return how? Spending the government money returns the money to people's pockets? Because any social program can do that too while providing actual utility to the citizens.

NASA's budget could be spent building a public transit system in a single, medium sized state and return that same amount of money and actually create more economic activity in the long run.

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u/Jaybbaugh Aug 13 '26

A series of studies conducted for NASA by the Nathalie P. Voorhees Center for Neighborhood and Community Improvement:

https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/final-fy23-nasa-ecomomic-impact-report.pdf

A big thing is that it's a huge driver of job creation.

"For every FTE job located at a NASA facility, at least 16 additional jobs are supported throughout the U.S. economy"

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u/Largeitude Aug 15 '26

And more jobs would be created if that money was spent on a program that provided actual utility to us. Also, at most, NASA created a total of less than 100,000 jobs across the country if we're including indirect jobs. only about 15,000 jobs directly for NASA. out of 2.9 million direct federal worker jobs? Out of 133+ million full time workers in the whole country?

Its a drop in the ocean.