Thread: Where Do We Draw The Line?

Originally Posted by Crotalus

NASA put a man on the moon, not for research, but to demonstrate to the Russians that we were ahead of them in missile technology so they better not try to nuke us. That sounds like a legitimate government function.

Yeah, but all the Russians had to do was worry about delivering a payload to the U.S. not the moon. I'm not knocking the technological achievement of landing on the moon, but isn't that kinda like swatting a fly with an atom bomb? We could have used a cheaper way to intimidate them. And we're still funding NASA well beyond that purpose.

And, there's really nothing in Article 1 section 8 of the Constitution that provides congress the power to collect taxes for the purpose of intimidating the enemy, unless you really stretch it.

Originally Posted by honedright

Yeah, but all the Russians had to do was worry about delivering a payload to the U.S. not the moon. I'm not knocking the technological achievement of landing on the moon, but isn't that kinda like swatting a fly with an atom bomb? We could have used a cheaper way to intimidate them. And we're still funding NASA well beyond that purpose.

And, there's really nothing in Article 1 section 8 of the Constitution that provides congress the power to collect taxes for the purpose of intimidating the enemy, unless you really stretch it.

Until we started working on going to the moon, all our rockets blew up on the pad.

Sputnik scared the hell out of us. The Russians could orbit a payload and we could not.

I can't believe the conspiracy idiots that believe the moon shot was faked.