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China: "We are more advanced and will beat the U.S. back to the moon." Also China:
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I'd prefer they fix things on earth
They are the long-term solution for entirely different scenarios. Space flight in the long term is all about having some part of our species survive in case we screw up Earth completely while fixing things on Earth is what will benefit more people but won't do anything about the risk of the "all eggs in one basket" situation.
ok but both cost money, and id rather survive now then have descendants live on mars
Compared to most of the things we do as humanity space program budgets are tiny. If you got rid of either the military or the super-rich you could fund everything humanity and the rest of the ecosystem needs down here and have money left over for dozens of space budgets for all of humanity.
I'm down with that plan : but until then i need the space program to buy my groceries