(August 28, 2022 at 7:11 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: I see that Artemis 1 is due to launch tomorrow. The cost of this flight, and three subsequent flights will be $4.1 billion each, with a total project cost of $93 billion by 2025.
How many hungry people could you feed for $93 billion? How many homeless could you house? How many schools and hospitals could you build? How much medical research could be funded? How many climate change projects?
Manned spaceflight is the boondoggliest of all boondoggles.
Boru
I agree Boru, this should not be our priority right now.
I think this is narcissism on our species part at this point. I think there is currently sufficient evidence that practical long term manned space flight, for now, is hardly cost effective. Unmanned space probes have proven to have the ability to go anywhere in the solar system and even out of our solar system. Our priorities should be on combating climate change, reducing pollution, and deforestation, famine, and increase global education. I agree