SvennoJ on 21 June 2017
| spurgeonryan said: We as a planet, spend trillions on the space program each year it seems, yet after 50 years we still have only just been to the Moon a few times. Who else has actually stepped foot there and who else is going in the near future? Maybe china? Give it another 50 years before we even land on Mars, let alone terraform it. Repeat.........we have only been to the moon a few times since the 60's!!!! He must realize this. By then some psychotic spoiled child will inherit some throne in some country with nuclear bombs and blow us all up. Unless we just happen to make force fields by then that can block entire countries. |
Trillions? 
39 billion seems a lot, that was 0.23% of GDP at the time, military budget in 2013 was over 700 billion.
The space shuttle program is to blame for why we've not gone back or past the moon. The name already says it. It was meant as a cost effective way to reach orbit, nothing more advanced than a bus service really. The space program has been stuck in low earth orit since the 60's. At least we're still sending out robots.
We still haven't seen the bottom of Earth's oceans either, or investigated the core. Don't need to look deeper than where oil is :/ Short term gain is holding humanity back. With the current political system it's impossible to make long term plans.
