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You could say the same about any exploration. It's expensive and difficult to sail to Greenland / North America / Pitcairn / Antarctica. And, once you get the
by edent 4y ago
You could say the same about any exploration.
It's expensive and difficult to sail to Greenland / North America / Pitcairn / Antarctica. And, once you get there, it's expensive and difficult to establish a colony. And, if you find anything of value, it's expensive and difficult to return it home.
Then you have all the domestic issues. Perhaps take a listen to "Whitey on the Moon" to understand why some people felt that there were better ways to spend money.
For All Mankind (up to the point I've seen) mostly glosses over the money issue. It is a charming fantasy.
- graderjs 4y agoIt is a fantasy: an alternative reality where the space race never ended...but I don't think it glosses over the money issue, instead it neatly justifies it by framing it as an arms race to control ever greater military assets: starting with the lunar operations command war base. The thesis that military, defense contractors and a technological arms race justifies loads of money is not fantasy, but mundane reality: Pentagon budgets, audit failures in the the trillions, right? So I think it's a solid justification, I mean at least relative to the parameters of our own reality. What else are you going to measure it against? You don't thinks so?