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I don't understand why they spend that much money finding out what had happened in the past or where we came from. Why not spend those money finding ways to save our future? Maybe a technology that converts those smoke coming out from factories to oxygen instantly or something that will clean the water or fix the ozone maybe? We need all the help we can get.

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Do you work on "a technology that converts those smoke coming out from factories to oxygen instantly or something that will clean the water or fix the ozone"? If not, why not? I find that I can often understand why others make the decisions they do by comparing my own motivations for similar decisions.

It's probably not that much money. I hear the same complaints that we spend too much on NASA when we should fix the problems at home. Nevermind that it gets only half a percent of the federal budget.

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