[montrose]

Name one commercially viable business plan for planetary exploration. There aren't any. There HAVE been a number of plans hawked to a gullible public--but they have lost their investment.
In some cases they propose to subsidize their efforts by leeching off the government facilities, but that begs the question.

Note that I speak very carefully about PLANETARY exploration (including the moon), not communications satellites and the like.

The CLOSEST proposal anyone has made has been the novel suggestion that a Voyager-type mission could be privately funded, and paid for by royalties from the imaging products (IMAX films and so forth). But that's a money-loser too.

[anymouse]

Guys like you were standing on the Spanish shore telling Columbus that he was wasting his investors' money.

Ney sayers are a dime a dozen. It take very little effort to criticize the doers in life. If you don't like the odds of someone's business plan, don't invest. But to catagorize all such efforts globally and forever to be frauds is specious. Sure many of these efforts are terminally naive. But they do have the right to try. And potential investors have the right to pass over their prospectuses for more desireable investments. That's the way the market works.

Last I checked the job of God was taken, therefore you are oversteeping your bounds by making the proclaimations that you have.