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I get that this is really cool and I love space too, learning about it is great.
But is this really what we should be spending our limited resources on?
The US has virtually unlimited resources, they just usually choose to spend them on military and corporate subsidies.
I meant as a planet, not country
Space research can help us make better use of resources
US prints the reserve money of the world. They basically have unlimited resources. This is better than money spent to kill midlle easterns