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		Tepix on July 13, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: NASA admits it doesn’t have the funding to land hu... Seriously! "The U.S. military budget is higher than the nine other biggest military budgets in the world combined." It's insane. Btw for 2017 it's 773.5 billion USD.

maze-le on July 13, 2017 [–]

To get an idea of whan a mind-bogling number that is: Its about the amount of the GDP of the Netherlands. The whole economic output of a 1. World country with 17M inhabitants is slightly smaller than this budget.

[0]: http://databank.worldbank.org/data/download/GDP.pdf

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