| Alistair said: Think of it this way, Biden just announced 300 billions dollars for wealthy graduates in debt relief. That could have payed for a moon base. But people don't want it, they want free money instead. Wasted money on useless educations could cut the cost of education in half. It's our choice, moon or wasted money. If this was a game, you only have so much productivity, and you have to allocate it to building a base on the Moon or Mars, or not. That would have paid to double NASA's funding for the next 10 years. Nope. That's why the main thing Elon is doing is trying to cut costs. Cheap travel to the moon is the goal of SpaceX. |
I raise you one better, 500 billion should be more than enough for the defense budget.That would save that amount of money each year. Even so there are better ways to spend that money. Given that there are more than enough problems down here as well. Mars and the moon are far less habitable than even the most extreme places on earth and are very difficult to remain habitable. But sure for some experiments a moon base could be useful.
Please excuse my (probally) poor grammar
