Opponents of space exploration will normally quote two main arguments against it: it’s too expensive and we have enough problems here as is. But let’s pause and think for a second here, why shouldn’t we explore space? Why shouldn’t the human race try to spread its presence across worlds?
“It’s too expensive”. Facts beg to differ. America, for instance, spends way more (and I mean a lot way more) on National Defense and Social Security programs alone than it ever did in the short history of space exploration. I’ll let the numbers do the talking:
Federal spending on General Science, Space and Technology in 2014 was only 28,908 million dollars while National defense and Social Security each took the bigger pie at 813,551 and 633,385 million dollars respectively. I’m no economist and I definitely have no right to tell Americans how to spend their money but clearly a few more…
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