Feel free to open up your personal resourses to make your dream come true. It's just when the government robs me at gunpoint and then uses the money to do things like give John Glenn a $280,000,000 orbital tour as a reward for his support in some legislation that I get a mite annoyed. There isn't any private space industry, lunar colonies, manned mars station, because there isn't any benefit to it.
What company would raise the necessary capital to put up a lunar station and then sit back and tell its stockholders - yep we did it we now have the xxx lunar colony, the stockholders then say OK now where are the profits? Errr, there aren't any. But you promised profits, well yes, but it will take another $500,000,000,000 before we can find something profitable. At this point the stockholders lynch the executives of the company and sell the assets for scrap to reclaim 1/1000 of a cent on the dollar. Unfortunately, we can't do that to the NASA managers, so they persist like all governmental agencies sucking their share of the lifeblood out of the ecomonomy
> Feel free to open up your personal resourses to make your dream come true.
I do. They're called "taxes."
> There isn't any private space industry, lunar colonies, manned mars station, because there isn't any benefit to it.
Uh-huh. And how much money did the US governemtn spend on Alaska and the Louisiana Purchase? How much money does a young couple spend on a baby?
Short-sighted luddism does not become a conservative. Leave that for the DUmmies.
> Unfortunately, we can't do that to the NASA managers, so they persist like all governmental agencies sucking their share of the lifeblood out of the ecomonomy
An impressive display of ignorance. NASA is the one agency that more than pays for itself. You want to do away with NASA? Fine. Watch your taxes grow and your military and technological base fall behind.