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December 1st 06, 03:01 AM
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What if the money spent on Iraq war were spent on space exploration?
The costs of Operation Iraqi Liberation are now at $322 billion
http://costofwar.com http://zfacts.com/p/447.html For comparison, the cost of Apollo projects were $135 billion in 2006 dollars http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project...of_the_program What if the money spent in Iraq were used for space exploration - how much could it buy? Manned landing on Mars? Moon base? An interstellar probe? 
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