I don’t drink coffee, but that remarke is better directed at The Angry Astronaut. His presentation has improved a lot over the years, too.
The remote probes that do the majority of science 70+ years in space discovery cost nothing close to a billion dollars over 15 years. There are 4 1 billion dollar observatories in space or soon to be in space at any time. Musk given enough broadband income will be driving manned flight forward until a another company catches him on LEO and geosych delivery. 3% of the department of defense is space weather and nav, add department of interior, homeland, CIA, NRO 3% of total government ultimately is space based program of some type.
Are we spending enough, only the earth killing asteroid countdown clock knowns?