We seem to have avoided catastrophe as a species a few times cutting it real close. And those haven't been really big incidents either. Anyway, Musk's strateg

We seem to have avoided catastrophe as a species a few times cutting it real close. And those haven't been really big incidents either. Anyway, Musk's strategy in making space travel cheaper is a right one. Throwing more money at it directly is likely to result in inefficient solutions. It requires time and work add much as some money. Setting up a Bezos space university would be a good start. And figuring out education without (much) bureaucracy and sinecures. Space travel (especially long range) is interesting in that tackling it rewrites solving a whole lot of ancillary problems. Social, political, educational, biological, agricultural, physical etc.