I hate it when people are like "we shouldn't be doing space exploration, we should be feeding/helping our people".
We could absolutely be doing BOTH. There's no reason we couldn't help everyone AND do cool scientific exploration.
First, of course, we'd have to stop warring with each other and giving all our money to a tiny handful of psychopaths.
Years back there were articles I'd yoogull for these people showing the return from space as something like 7-1. Every dollar spent to-space, returned 7 times into the economy through the tech, science, knowledge and advancements those excursions and research cost.
I'm sure they're still there.
And stop giving all the space money to a poorly conceived really big spaceship that is never going to work.
I just remind people that shit like cordless drills came about first as NASA research to supply astronauts with tools to use.
Research and science pays off for everyone indirectly and directly as long as it's above board and also not just some new extra deadly bomb or something. NASA's budget is a fraction of what we piss away on military.
@ChrisJagged I used to love space exploration, but now I don't. There are several reasons. A big one is that a lot of it is superpower competition, e.g. moon bases, China vs USA. The technology dividend helps weapons development as well as cookware or whatever. The economic dividend also worsens the climate crisis. A couple of the psychopaths getting all our money also want to do stupid things in space, less of that please.
I like ingenious probes and science missions much more.
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