First mission to bring back samples from the moon since 1976 started successfully

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Ka-pi96 said:

vivster said:

That is way too simplistic. While astronomy and astrophysics is the most boring field imaginable it still has brought us plenty of advances on earth and it will continue to do so.

It's wrong to say that the money is wasted. Scientific progress is absolutely necessary. The money to feed the poor is wasted elsewhere. Chastising scientists for using money for science instead of the poor is just like chastising the middle class for not donating to good causes. It's not their or our job to feed the poor. The money and manpower for that is elsewhere.

Except it's not scientists using their own money. It's the government using taxpayer money for this and it absolutely is their job to help the poor people in the country.

Some of those launchesd, and everything involved with it, are partially funded by private companies(Space X). Others is fully founded by companies. So it's not as simple as that.