I need to know what the point of spending thousands of US dollars on space trips is meant for. I don't know what we've accomplished and found beneficial to society and the overall growth of human living by having money and such being tossed for the government to send random men up into space. I don't understand why space travel is so necessary. Please tell me how the moon launchings weren't fake, or needed for the human race.
Its so the rich people can go off and live in space when they've messed up our planet most likely, mean time they make us pay for it. I'd like to see humanity just pause for a second and sort out the problems on our own planet then worry about space travel.
The problem with that is that it don't work. If we look at history, we find that humanity solves the most problems when there is a frontier. In our modern world, there are really only two, with nearly equal challenges at the beginning. The first is the oceans. We can expand into the oceans, and like space, it's an alien environment in which we will have to develop new technologies and new refinements to existing technologies.
So how does that improve the situation for the rest of humanity, in either case?
Those refinements and technological improvements get adapted. For instance, for seasteads you pretty much have to develop multiple ways to produce fresh water and electric power in a small and self contained area. I don't think it will stretch anyone's imagination too much to see how this would benefit humanity in general.
The flip side of this, historically, has been that the frontier was inhabited by other humans, deemed "undesirable" by conquerors and pilgrims. Near space eliminates THAT problem as it's unihabited, and the technological challenges are far greater, so likely the advances that come home will be too.
Or we can turn our backs on these challenges, stagnate and die out.
