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There Is No Space Program

Tom Ball

    The current so-called space programs don’t have much funding and in any case are run by governments who do nothing but waste money as everyone knows.
    We live in a world that is meaningless and our only hope to find meaning lies with space exploration. Sure it would take time, but at present we are doing nothing.
    When NASA landed on the moon they convinced everyone that the moon was nothing interesting, and they still haven’t even got a colony there. Of course sci-fi writers have tried to make space interesting, but most people aren’t interested. They are more interested in watching action films all of which have an identical plot. If they watch sci-fi it has to feature guys with guns chasing the good guy until the end when the good guy triumphs.
    The government is also in charge of education and this has largely failed to improve as with any government program. They make no effort to inculcate in the populace that space is important. In fact all they teach is how to memorize things. Nothing more. And then the government says that we live in the best of all possible worlds. And they have their agents harass anyone who has good ideas.
    And private investors have so far made virtually no attempt to get space tourism or exploration going. They’d rather invest in a Hollywood action film rather than advance our civilization.
    Yet there are millions of bored rich people who’d pay to take a ride in space or party at a space station or do anything else that is novel and different.
    It’s maddening.

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