* Amount of taxpayer money spent on NASA: $19 billion
* Cost of providing air conditioning to the US troops in Iraq & Afghanistan: $20.2 billion
I have lived in an un-air conditioned place where summer temperatures reach into the 100 degree levels even late at night. I layed awake in my own sweat, feeling both the need for new sheets and the futility of changing them, making the trade-off between bearing with mosquito bites or suffocating inside closed windows. It sucks, but like most of life’s weather-driven inconveniences, you get used to it.