>Couldn't we please just swap the NASA and military budgets for one year? Just one.
No, but we could just give DARPA to NASA, since they should both be doing roughly the same thing anyway, and the gov't probably loses some few hundreds of millions of dollars maintaining a superfluous bureaucracy to manage DARPA.
It would also be nice if the next revolutionary rocket technology were to be used primarily to go to other planets and explore space, rather than to kill peasants in Asia, but that is a secondary consideration.
No, but we could just give DARPA to NASA, since they should both be doing roughly the same thing anyway, and the gov't probably loses some few hundreds of millions of dollars maintaining a superfluous bureaucracy to manage DARPA.
It would also be nice if the next revolutionary rocket technology were to be used primarily to go to other planets and explore space, rather than to kill peasants in Asia, but that is a secondary consideration.