[monkapotamus]

"oh for Petes sake, Building a machines like a Saturn V moon rocket or the shuttle is not something that gets done without taxes nor by a single individual. Just as building a nuclear aircraft carrier or B2 Bomber. "

And the many European explorers that came to America hundreds of years ago were funded by their leaders/kings/queens.

[Dan Evans]

And the many European explorers that came to America hundreds of years ago were funded by their leaders/kings/queens.

It's one thing to finance an expedition to explore new territory that will create wealth. It's another to create a bloated government bureaucracy that maintains an expensive and useless outpost to grow worms in zero gravity.