“You want to live in fantasy land? Do it on your own dime. We are about to collapse under our debt, we can’t afford to chase rainbows with the public treasury.”
You want to talk about living in fantasy, it is your not realizing how we cannot afford as a nation and a society to surrender the High Ground or the extraterrestrial economy to China, Russia, or any other totalitarian regime. An iron-nickel asteroid and its mining operation are worth more than its weight in the gold found here on the Earth. Whomever exploits such a natural resource to construct factories, communications, transportation facilities, and spacecraft in space is going to become the first trillionaire/s.
“we cannot afford as a nation and a society to surrender the High Ground or the extraterrestrial economy to China, Russia, or any other totalitarian regime”
Luckily, none of those regimes are as silly as you and aren’t chasing that fantasy.
“An iron-nickel asteroid and its mining operation are worth more than its weight in the gold found here on the Earth.”
Still fantasizing about complete hypotheticals here...