Total waste of money and I’m a remainer. We’d be further to making this planet sustainable with the money spent on this space nonsense.
No money that is spent adding information to the total sum of human knowledge is ever wasted.
Knowing what the Kardashians ate for breakfast is a waste of money.
The only good thing about space travel may be when very rich people go up in virgin galactic and realise that we live on a jewel in the cosmos and then put their money, time and influence into saving that jewel.
Let’s do a list of what is wrong with this little rant:
– Money:
The space sector is now worth £11.3 billion annually to the UK economy. This
represents about 6.5% of the global space and services market, but we want to
grow that to around 10% by 2030; boosting the economy to £40 billion a year.
So, the space industry is a contributor to finances, rather than a drain.
– Some of the Benefits to the environment:
1. Solar panel technology.
2. Insulation technology.
3. Earth remote monitoring that provides us with an invaluable way of assessing the environmental issues we face.
4. Images and footage that go global that raise awareness of the beauty, and fragility of our planet.
5. Global cooperation across political borders.
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Knowing what the Kardashians ate for breakfast is a waste of money.
That’s not knowledge, that’s gossip.
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The only good thing about space travel may be when very rich people go up in virgin galactic and realise that we live on a jewel in the cosmos and then put their money, time and influence into saving that jewel.
I refer you to item 4 above: This is already happening, thanks to the international space programme.