>>If it’s paid for by tax dollars, then $.01 is too much.
Well, then let’s stay on earth and argue over taxes until we die.
>>It didn’t cost in excess of a million dollars an ounce to send Lewis and Clark anywhere. They got on their horses and went. If anyone can get in his car and drive to the moon let them go. L&C cataloged economically feasible resources. The moon is NOT economically feasible as a source of anything.
Lewis and Clark were paid by TAXPAYER DOLLARS.
>>How about just NOT spending it on subsidized health care How about - and here’s a novel idea - LETTING THE PEOPLE WHO EARNED IT KEEP IT AND SPEND IT ON WHAT THEY WANT?
I agree, but we still are at the stepping stone into space. We’ve been to the moon several times already with equipment and technology at an infant stage to what we possess now. Eventually a large enough meteor is going to hit this planet - and hopefully not while we are arguing about why expanding into space is a stupid idea.
I will go along with this, like Lewis and Clark, if the tax system and rates are the same as they were during the Jefferson administration.
Nothing is stopping you and your like minded citizens from forming a corporation WITH YOUR OWN MONEY and exploring space to your heart's content. My problem is not with space exploration per se, but with the people who think that they shoudl rob their fellow taxpayers to do it. Bad enough to be robbed to support some a$$hole welfare recipient who made a lifetime of bad choices, but then supporting a bunch of engineers and PhDs who could actually earn a living seems even more excessive.
Lewis and Clark were paid by TAXPAYER DOLLARS.
So what? You think the space program is in any way analogous to L&C? Ha ha.
Eventually a large enough meteor is going to hit this planet -
Undoubtedly. In fact it has happened before, and appears to happen on average ever couple of hundred million years, but look there is still life on the planet, and who is to say that the vast wealth required to explore space would not be better survive a disaster right here. There are much more likely catastrophes than a meteor strike. (like a second 0 term)