With the olympics budget NASA could've sent 6 rovers to the red planet
According to the calculations of the Atlantic Wire it cost $15 billion to host this years Olympics. At the same time the cost of sending the Curiosity Rover to Mars was somewhere around $2.5 billion. That means, that a little over two weeks of gluttony in front of the tv cost exactly six times more to organize, than a mission that can actually change mankind. Pretty sad. Even sadder when we think what that kind of money (15 bil) would do if used to feed and educate the needy.
