There's always one of your type on every space thread. It gets old really fast.
this is one of the things they can borrow my money for!!
I always use the Lewis and Clark example of government funded exploration. The benefits of that “waste of money” were great. However we didn’t have a lot of other social programs to deal with at the time.
I would hope so. It is a heck of a waste of money!
If you want to do this with your private money have at it.
I’m not against spending taxpayer’s money for space exploration, but it should be spent to reward initiative and risk taking (a la X prize) rather than throwing it away on the bureaucratic, Congress-fellating, “Not Invented Here” ongoing boondoggle festival which is NASA.
Good luck going to Mars with NASA running the show. NASA has sucked since the Germans stopped running it. It is like the Post Office now filled with ACORN workers.
“There’s always one of your type on every space thread. It gets old really fast.”
Make that two...so far. This business of “space exploration” is not an endeavor without monetary cost. If it is public funds that are funding the “party”, there needs to be a credible case made for the cost/benefit ratio. Sorry, it’s still a bean-counter world, since that’s what we pay our taxes in. You (should) have to make a case that the economic benefits at least match the cost. It’s not like you’re talking about “the common defense”. Even health care has a better cost/benefit ratio than going to Mars (as cool as that certainly sounds). Coolness is a little harder to sell these days, at the beginning of an economic winter.
“It gets old real fast.”
You should expect no less on a Libertarian site like this one. Perhaps a site that is less emotionally trying would help. That, or growing some “alligator skin”. You find a lot of big kids on this playground. It would behoove all of us to be a bit more tolerant of other people’s ideas on a public forum.