Agree with slim gym. There are people starving in the world.
Thanks Cat ...i was beginning to think I was the only one to think that way !!
seriously , that was a huge amount of money wasted ... for what ... to feed one ego or to compensate for the loss of a woman or simply to compete with another ego manic like Branson ???
I never really understood the need for space travel. First it was ego between the US and the USSR, based on Nazi knowlegde.
But... what if we get an invasion? Or something catastrophic is to happen, huge meteor for instance? We are totally powerless!
Just watch the movies. All we do is try to nuke whatever, and send a welcome-wagon heli which will get shot down. And nuking... if any race has the ability to get all the way over here from lord knows where, then their technology is vastly more advanced than ours. We can barely even get to the frigging moon?!
It is important for mankind's future, and also for our own advancement as a species.
As for food... ever thought about the BILLIONS and billions of dollars and food and people & doctor aid we have sent to poor countries over the past decades?
More likely trillions by now!
And people are still starving.
In most cases the ones in power in those countries are to blame as they don't value human life, they only value their own wealth, status and well-being.
Then we spend even more millions, billions, PER western country to accommodate the ones that flee to us. They get houses, cars, income, free healthcare, clothes, education...
Our social security and healthcare systems have been bled dry.
The problem isn't sorted.
There IS a limit to what we can do, even to what we should do.
The ones responsible have to do something about it, and that ain't us.
These countries need to sort out their own chit