If we can't afford Social Security & Medicare (which we already paid for) we certainly shouldn't be paying for Elon Musk's lunatic idea of sending humans on a year-long trip to Mars - a frozen desert rock with no atmosphere and no magnetic field to shield it from dangerous solar radiation.
Space Travel is so that all the billionaires can live on space stations in luxury while the rest of humanity struggles to survive on what's left of the planet they've raped.
That's one problem. Here are others: It takes too long to get there. Terraforming won't work as there is no magnetic field to keep solar wind from blowing atmosphere away. People would have to live underground - that won't promote sanity. This is Musk scamming the American public again.
A rat done bit my sister Nell.
(with Whitey on the Moon)
Her face and arms began to swell.
(and Whitey's on the Moon)
I can't pay no doctor bill.
(but Whitey's on the Moon)
Ten years from now I'll be paying still.
(while Whitey's on the Moon)
-Gilbert Scott-Heron
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(with Whitey on the Moon)
Her face and arms began to swell.
(and Whitey's on the Moon)
I can't pay no doctor bill.
(but Whitey's on the Moon)
Ten years from now I'll be paying still.
(while Whitey's on the Moon)
-Gilbert Scott-Heron
We can do both.
People should always be the priority of every nation, and when it isn't, those in charge should be removed.