I don't claim to be representative of the general opinion of HN, but my opinion is that a dick measuring contest between billionaires is slightly less worse tha

I don't claim to be representative of the general opinion of HN, but my opinion is that a dick measuring contest between billionaires is slightly less worse than a dick measuring contest between parochial and aggressive nation-states. Unfortunately, space exploration is so expensive and useless* that these are the only two known ways to fund it. * it appears useless to the people who are funding it, but of course we on HN know better than that