Comment by RajT88
9 hours ago
Your definition of "very high" costs likely don't align with what you think of when you think of "very high" government spending. NASA's 25 billion dollar budget for 2025 was a paltry ~.4% of the total government budget.
Wikimedia foundation's operating budget is 207 million a year - a drop in the ocean of federal budgets, if Factbook was similar.
> NASA's 25 billion dollar budget for 2025 was a paltry ~.04% of the total government budget.
I'm sorry, I think you have a math or data error here. The US government budget for 2025 was not $62.5 trillion dollars.
Yea, they where off by a factor of 10, so 0.4%.
Now fixed. Point still stands!