[DSH]

We’re in an era where it costs less to send a rover to the moon than it takes to buy an Airbus 320. Or buy 5% of a destroyer for that matter.

Okay, sure. But what's the point?

Much of what passes for national "space programs" today is just idiotic political ego-stroking. A country like India seeks to land on the moon for the same reason a country like Argentina builds an aircraft. At the outbreak of the Falklands war, Argentina sent its one aircraft carrier to Chile for safe keeping.

Every dollar spent today on space "exploration" is money down a pointless rathole.

[PIF]

Every dollar spent today on space “exploration” is money down a pointless rathole.

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Until a really big asteroid or comet decides to call Earth home. Not if, but when