Most of the people who enroll in these space programs are in it for the money and the career. I once had a job in space, 30 quid an hour they were paying me. I walked out after three days because it bored the shit out of me, and I couldn't be arsed wearing all the clean suit gear. I decided to go to India instead. The job I had to do was making me lethargic and depressed, and the immediately senior management/ex army boys were annoying me too much.

Your right about some peoples concept of space though, I had to laugh recently when someone I was working with on a normal banjo man job asked me what shooting stars were. It's debris from space entering the atmosphere and burning up, you know rocks and stuff. His reply to that was "But how do they get up there?" To be fair though, it was 4 in the morning and we were all blazed on the job. Furthermore he didn't have a university degree in physics, and therefore effectively had the astronomical mind of a 6 year old.

I don't mind all this sending probes to Mars, and I hope to see the human race go to the moon again within my lifetime, or even Mars who knows. It just annoys the crap out of me that there's money for that, there's money for war, but there is no money for me to start some new sustainable non-starship enterprise. There's no money for me to buy a plot of land back from the empire and grow vegetables in my garden, whilst spending the rest of my days getting phased and studying fractal patterns.
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