Just FYI you probably meant equate instead of equivocate. Two other reasons to add on to the GP's post: (i) improving our species fault-tolerance to astroids, a

Just FYI you probably meant equate instead of equivocate. Two other reasons to add on to the GP's post: (i) improving our species fault-tolerance to astroids, and other existential risk is a good thing (ii) efforts like SpaceX make science "cool again" in a way that it has not been since the Apollo program, and generally since the end of WWII