Puppet_Sock wrote
Rod Speed wrote

What if colinization can pay for itself and turn a profit?

None, zero, nada, ziltch.

Here's a deal for you.

Nope, its just your pathetic little drug crazed fantasy.

You can simply not participate,

Taxation doesnt work like that, stupid.

and then when the benefits start to roll in, you will
be forcefully prevented from enjoying any of them.

Doesnt work like that, stupid.

The program will go faster without you anyway.

Only in your pathetic little drug crazed fantasy.

Oh, by the way. Space is already making
huge stacks of money for those participating.

Yes, and I use quite a bit of that, but thats not space
colonisation and I did in fact get ALL the benefits from
the NON MANNED space efforts, not the manned ones.

Space has been a net profit for some considerable time now.

And even just the few odd trips to the moon never did.

There are these things called weather satts, telecom satts, GPS, and others.

You quite sure you aint one of those rocket scientist terminal ****wits ?

They are already producing more revenue than is spent on space, by a lot.

Pity they are ALL the unmanned ones, ****wit.

So you can just go turn in your GPS, your cell phone,
your internet connection, your weather reports, etc. etc

No point, I have never objected to paying for any of those.

They even employed me at one time.

Thats nothing even remotely resembling anything like
the SPACE COLONISATION being discussed tho.