$7.00

[kpete]

[sinkingfeeling]

1. I can't help it. Dosen't it look like Pixar's Wall-E?

[Lint Head]

4. We should start a movement and call it Seven Dollars to get Congress to fund NASA!

[Hissyspit]

5. No.

Wall-E looks like NASA's Curiosity Rover.

[aquart]

14. Don't be shocked if that influenced them.

In their spare time, these are the guys at the sci-fi conventions. They dream it, then they do it.

[Confusious]

2. 7 bucks well spent

2,500 for wars, not so well spent.

Sorry, 50,800 not so well spent. Man, I was off.

[RebelOne]

3. Yes, I agree. I would spring for $7,

but not for any money for the useless wars.

[Auggie]

7. Agree

[Motown_Johnny]

6. or, a projected, $3.50 a year.

[Posteritatis]

12. Probably less than that; they expect to go well beyond the planned lifetime

In the post-landing conference six years was hinted at, and the lander's got power for at least fourteen.

[Motown_Johnny]

15. I was going with a worse case scenario

six years would be fantastic

[lame54]

8. I want my money back...

No brown people were killed

Just in case

[lunatica]

9. I think my money is well invested!

[aquart]

10. Cheaper than a lousy movie.

Oh, IT WAS WORTH IT!

[slampoet]

11. Here's $8. Get a color camera and some white-wall tires.

Still a good deal.

[deaniac21]

13. Man, that would have fed a bunch of people.

[Posteritatis]

19. The thousand or so people and their families in the MER program don't photosynthesize. (nt)

[yawnmaster]

16. and it comes with a high powered laser to blast any hostiles...

secondarily it can also be used to analyze rocks, if any hostiles can't be found.

[OmahaBlueDog]

17. I sometimes wonder if NASA, DVA, and NPS checkoff boxes should be on the tax returns

It probably wouldn't work, but I'd love it if there were check boxes that would allow taxpayers to designate that $25 to go to NASA, The Dept of Veterans Affairs, or the National Park Service. An additional thought -- if you agreed to reduce your return by that much, maybe it could be worked so that part of your tax bill went to a full or partial match.

OK.. nap time over. Back to reality.

[Posteritatis]

21. I've always wondered how that sort of thing might work out in practice... (nt)

[obxhead]

22. Probably much like the lottery does for many states.

The NC "education" lottery was supposed to deliver millions to the schools in extra funding. In reality, they slashed the education budget as the lottery was covering it. The schools had almost the same money, but it was supposed to be a bonus to the system not a way to divert tax dollars elsewhere.

[annabanana]

18. HA!. . good one. . .n/t

[DesMoinesDem]

20. Sorry to bring a little reality to this thread

but Mitt Romney is hardly the only American 'taxpayer' not paying any income taxes. In fact, about 50% of American households pay no income taxes.

[obxhead]

23. Which in itself is disgusting.

Look at what you have to make to pay zero and not be rich. Just at or slightly above the legal (insanely low) poverty level.

I bet every single one of the people in that 50% would love to make more money and get bounced into a paying tax bracket.

For an extra bonus, if those 50% purchase just about ANYTHING they are in fact paying taxes, and lots of them.