Paul F. Dietz wrote:

wrote:

It's even easier to deny clear benefits that have resulted from
government expenditures in space.


So list them. *Manned* space we're talking about, mind you.


Technologies required for life support systems in space and on other
planetary bodies, for starters. While I understand that in your religion
mankind has no place off of the Earth, those of us who do not subscribe
to your particular superstition know that the universe is a big damn
place and that those who refuse to go will be forgotten and impoverished.

The universe is packed with resources that are, in almost all cases,
grossly noncompetitive with terrestrial alternatives.


Really? So... a hundred years from now, when two-thirds of humanity
lives *off* Earth, they'll be shiuppign their iron, water and corn up
from Iowa?



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