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Booban
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Space cadets, astronauts all you brilliantly smart engineers and whatever else you do on the tax payers dime, you are all engaged in a very expensive hobby being paid by other people. Its nice that it's exciting and fun, but the bill is not being paid by the 'gov't' or 'Congress', its being paid by ordinary hard working people, many who do not have a respectable cushy high status job.
People expect a return in their investment. And not just microwaves ovens. We all expect our money back plus profit! Roads and schools are all paid and shared by everyone. Joy riding into space, only you guys get the benefits of that.
The perhaps provocative point of all this is, how to make money in space?
People explored to find gold, new trade routes, new markets. You can't just go back to the moon to find more rocks and maybe from there go to Mars to find even more rocks. People want real answers, not maybe we'll try this, and prepare for that. Going to the moon is not the same as going to Mars, it won't prepare you for Mars.
People want a plan, NASA you can have whatever budget you want for 10 years just pay it back with profit later. Show us the money.
Where are the plans to mine precious metals and to find new energy sources like helium 3 I hear about? Why aren't we beaming down free solar energy?
I haven't heard of a single plan that would actually work, apart from satellites and space tourism. In that case everything needs to stay grounded and send probes until we find gold in them thar hills!
People expect a return in their investment. And not just microwaves ovens. We all expect our money back plus profit! Roads and schools are all paid and shared by everyone. Joy riding into space, only you guys get the benefits of that.
The perhaps provocative point of all this is, how to make money in space?
People explored to find gold, new trade routes, new markets. You can't just go back to the moon to find more rocks and maybe from there go to Mars to find even more rocks. People want real answers, not maybe we'll try this, and prepare for that. Going to the moon is not the same as going to Mars, it won't prepare you for Mars.
People want a plan, NASA you can have whatever budget you want for 10 years just pay it back with profit later. Show us the money.
Where are the plans to mine precious metals and to find new energy sources like helium 3 I hear about? Why aren't we beaming down free solar energy?
I haven't heard of a single plan that would actually work, apart from satellites and space tourism. In that case everything needs to stay grounded and send probes until we find gold in them thar hills!