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Originally Posted by Surreal Farber  So where is this money for terraforming and transport to Mars coming from and why can't we spend it developing completely renewable energy sources and clean up the Pacific trash patch instead?
(I support space exploration for science, but let's clean up our own fucking planet before we use another one as a strip mine or trash dump) |
I really don't see it as being one or the other, I see space exploration and R&D into green technologies as being two of a number of things that are much more deserving of funding than many of the things that currently receive ridiculous sums of tax payers money e.g. military.