You make my case for me. Government R&D is typical Marxist central planning. Use up a vast quantity of money and you might get something good and you might not, but you don't have any way to tell because there aren't any price signals attached. Further you will never see the true costs. Like I said pay for your own fantasies or if there is so much value in space, form a company to exploit it and get rich.
> Government R&D is typical Marxist central planning.
Blah, blah, blah. Do you get this twitchy when someone suggests that DARPA or an Air Froce or Army research lab should study such-and-such? Are you still cheesed off about the billiosn spent on the Manhattan project? Couldn't private industry have done it better? What about the DARPAnet? Shouldn't you be boycotting the Internet in protest? Or are you just a hypocritical Marxist?