Slightly off topic, but every cent that was spent "on space", was also spent "on earth". If you pay someone to build a rocket, that human lives on earth, not in

Slightly off topic, but every cent that was spent "on space", was also spent "on earth". If you pay someone to build a rocket, that human lives on earth, not in space. Where the rocket goes is not the same place as where the money goes. This extremely basic economic misunderstanding undermines any other point you were trying to make.