> What frustrated me more were the comments that appeared to be divorced from reality about what space exploration will bring. There's not a single comment in

> What frustrated me more were the comments that appeared to be divorced from reality about what space exploration will bring. There's not a single comment in this thread that does anything of the sort. > He's spending his investors' money All large, institutional investors that invest not because of some hypothetical Mars colonization, but because SpaceX is dominating the launch market, including government contracts, and has a potentially very large upcoming revenue stream with Starlink. In terms of any sort of GDP comparison, space activities and employee numbers are a tiny, tiny fraction of economic output, so I really fail to understand such complaints.