All those things you mentioned are patented and profitable for the companies whose research we paid for, only to give them ownership of the results. The boondoggle isn't that we are spending money on "science", it's that the same companies that get military contracts are the ones that get NASA contracts. I have no problem with the government hiring scientists to do research or even to explore space. The current space program is part of the military industrial complex, which is and always has been stealing taxpayers dollars at a wicked clip.
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