Ooh you don't want me to get started on Live Aid...
Live Aid total money raised: about $150 million. Slightly less than the cost of a single F117 stealth fighter.
Total world military expenditure 2018: $1,800,000 million ($1.8 trillion)
"Take all that money we spend on weapons and defence each year and instead spend it feeding, clothing and educating the poor of the world - which it would many times over, not one human being excluded - and we can explore space together, both inner and outer, forever, and in peace"
RIP Bill Hicks.
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da5id <YOUR SIG HERE>, Sun 27 Oct 2019, 16:42,
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Bread and circuses for the masses, like the Olympics etc.
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FeralCatMan Unusual disease collector., Sun 27 Oct 2019, 16:47,
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I heard a number in the 80's
which I feel still holds true, although I have no hard facts that are current.
The cost of housing, feeding, and clothing the world for a year is roughly the same as the spending on the military every two weeks.
I do know that the Iraq war at its height was costing $25 billion a month (including costs like medical for returned vets), at the time adjusted for inflation the entire Apollo program cost $100 billion so for every four months of the Iraq war we could have had an entire moon program, including R&D, training, and 10 moon missions.
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My Name was saying these words inside your head on, Sun 27 Oct 2019, 19:45,
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"Couldn't we feasibly use that same technology to shoot food at hungry people?"
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