Given the trainwreck the US government has made of the US economy, I question NASA. I have a habit of questioning monopolies, collectives, state agencies, bureaucracies, and government itself.
So. What’s all this rubbish about a statist operation to somehow establish “outposts” in hard vacuum hundreds and hundreds of thousands of miles away for the obvious purpose of spending money we don’t have? (But could print!)
My vote? Close down NASA, yet another of the colossal, egotistical wastes of money devised by a bankrupt federal government — NASA was devised to beat the Soviets in a useless race for bragging rights. NASA is therefore obsolete.
Either that or have it prove profitability. Surely “shipping minerals back to Earth” can be made profitable, no?
