> You’re just coming up with excuses for why you don’t care. I do care, as in "it's really cool" and I wish I could do it, too. I grew up being passionate abou

> You’re just coming up with excuses for why you don’t care. I do care, as in "it's really cool" and I wish I could do it, too. I grew up being passionate about Apollo and the ISS. But then I realised that the ISS is extraordinarily expensive and really doesn't bring much (still I would love to go!). Worse even: the more popular space programs get, the more likely it is that SpaceX and the likes succeed in commercialising space and polluting more and more while doing it. And another thing I have realised is that other people passionate about human spaceflights usually either don't give a shit about the fact that we are destroying the conditions of our survival or don't understand how bad the situation is. Look at the comments here on this topic: when someone questions the fact that manned space missions are scientifically useful (nobody ever denies that they are super cool), they get downvoted very fast. Nobody ever engages in a constructive discussion of "why they may, actually, be useful", other than by saying "but look, a fraction of the money we put into space programs helped develop some things that we could have developed without the space program, but I want to believe that we may have not developed them or much slower". I do have hobbies indeed, but they don't involve throwing away billions of taxpayer money.