After watching the video, I feel like there should be software that gets regular updates of planetary surfaces and highlights drastic changes.
Probably exists somewhere, but would be neat to see historical changes
Probably exists somewhere, but would be neat to see historical changes
I happen to agree with you, and would be happy to see taxes allocated towards further exploration of the solar system. But resources are limited.
It's a nice idea, even if some organizations abuse it (they give out free tax-filling software that has their organization hardcoded).
Just to add some numbers for perspective. In 2018 there was 763M PLN (~$200M USD) to split among 9000 approved organizations. The largest one got 166M with another 100 orgs getting 1M+.
We don't get a refund (perhaps I misused a word in my last comment): when filling my tax, there's a box for amount donated, which is then used when calculating the amount of money I'll have to pay as taxes.
But yeah, the barrier is higher, but I think the choice of organizations is wider in our case, like the organization to which I gave money the last two years wouldn't be on the list for example.
Have little knowledge of astronomy but from a photography perspective this is quite amusing, usually it's the opposite problem for many photos.