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And as long as you and those who think like you are willing to pay for all of it I don't have a problem with it. But inevitably you space types want the government (read taxpayers) to foot the bill for your fantasies.

I suspect you do have a problem with us free enterprise space types too.

Right now the access is relatively primitive...and essentially overwhelmingly risky. Squashing flat normal economic incentives. There are several ways to deal with that. Governmentally encourage (via credits or outright subsidization of) research into economical space access alternatives or a governmental monopoly on space access...(the only entity which can routinely afford the flights and/or the liability issues)...which is what we are stuck with now.

And no amount of uncomprehending griping by you is likely to stop this "wasteful" governmental predilection to go into space.

You likely don't like ANY role for governmental encouragement.

I.e., you likely still grump about the wasteful voyages of Christopher Columbus, or the hideously costly Louisiana Purchase, and the dastardly expensive Seward's Folly in purchasing Alaska...the boon-doggles of the Transcontinental Railways, etc.

you likely still grump about the wasteful voyages of Christopher Columbus, or the hideously costly Louisiana Purchase, and the dastardly expensive Seward's Folly in purchasing Alaska...the boon-doggles of the Transcontinental Railways, etc.

I get so tired of hearing the space heads (my term for those who share the delusion that somehow rocks and dirt on another planet are somehow more valuable than rocks and dirt here) keep trotting out these same old non-sequitors. There is absolutely no comparison due to the accessibility difference. 15th century technology was enough to get to the new world. If it cost $100,000,000 a pound to get something back from Louisiana/Alaska etc. Do you seriously think anyone would have bought it? Unless you have a secret miraculous way to get there and back, a heap of rocks and dust 240,000 miles away or 27,000,000 miles away or a billion miles away is no where near as valuable as a heap of rocks and dust anywhere on earth. Less valuable, because here you have air to breathe while you look at your rocks and dust.

I suspect you do have a problem with us free enterprise space types too.

Not at all. Your money and the money of those you con into investing in your delusions is your to do with as you want - If you want to burn it, stuff it up a wild hog's ass or invest it in a "space company" have at it.