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$$hole welfare recipient who made a lifetime of bad choices, but then supporting a bunch of engineers and PhDs who could actually earn a living seems even more excessive.
Lewis and Clark were paid by TAXPAYER DOLLARS.
So what? You think the space program is in any way analogous to L&C? Ha ha.
Eventually a large enough meteor is going to hit this planet -
Undoubtedly. In fact it has happened before, and appears to happen on average ever couple of hundred million years, but look there is still life on the planet, and who is to say that the vast wealth required to explore space would not be better survive a disaster right here. There are much more likely catastrophes than a meteor strike. (like a second 0 term)
>>>Nothing is stopping you and your like minded citizens from forming a corporation WITH YOUR OWN MONEY and exploring space to your heart’s content. My problem is not with space exploration per se, but with the people who think that they shoudl rob their fellow taxpayers to do it. Bad enough to be robbed to support some a$$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.
The problem is that countries pay others to do exploration, and then the companies follow - as it has always been. Who paid Columbus? Who paid Lewis and Clark? Who made the space station? After foothold has been established, then comes the companies.
>>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.
Very much so. I’m sure Lewis and Clark’s discovery of Yellowstone was analogous to Armstrong’s first step on the moon - it was all a discovery and a foothold for people to later follow.
>>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)
I am in total agreement about the second Obama term. However, a devastating meteor strike, a spread of modified bird flu, or any other disaster necessitates another family at other places to carry on.