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I am not really sure how to go about this. There was a time, right around the time when the Challenger exploded (1986) when I thought the space program was pretty cool. You know? You have a government and private organizations investing in a program to explore the vast regions of space - probably eventually with the goal of colonizing other planets or something.

But am I the only one who thinks this is a ridiculous waste of time and money? When you have a space program which costs the average American taxpayer 67 gazillion dollars a year and a national deficit of $11,904,908,462,105 as of 28 Oct 2009 at 07:55:47 PM GMT, it just seems like a luxury we can’t afford. I mean has there really been any positive monetary gains as a result of our space program? If there have been, please let me know.

Look, I think the ideas of colonizing other planets, discovering we’re not alone in the universe are pretty cool, but that’s not what we’re doing. We’re just paying repeated visits to a dead rock and building and modifying a space station that doesn’t do anybody any damn good either.

Next time we have trillions just laying around after we pay our debts and really do something about our health care system, then what the hell - let’s explore space. But until then, please stop wasting my money.

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