It took an incredible amount of resources and ingenuity to get to the moon — going to Mars would be orders of magnitude tougher. I don’t know if we would “have a base on Mars by now,” but our space program would certainly be in much better shape than it is!
What type of magnitude of increase would you say that is? I my opinion if we had pushed ahead, those phones would be even smaller and more powerful now.
But of course with a left wing extremist in the White House, feeding the poor by raping the rich is more important.
Until you don't have anymore rich.