Ben Lockwood (broadly defined)I’m as fascinated by space exploration as the next guy, but it doesn’t seem like we should be making it a priority when we have so many issues to solve on this planet–like climate change, biodiversity loss, ecosystem collapse, mass extinction, human suffering, etc etc
Donald Ham 
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Ben, that's a zero-sum argument I've heard since the Mercury program when I was a child. It's not either/or, we can solve fundamental problems AND invest in basic science and exploration. But we need to live up to our promise to do that, we have not done a very good job so far.
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