Writer's Block: Fly me to the moon

[johncomic]

[Error: unknown template qotd]Yes and yes.

Heinlein once demonstrated how all the money spent on Project Apollo was got back in technological and social side benefits [e.g., medical advances that piggybacked off of space research].

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[ginsu.livejournal.com]

To me it's crucial for another, longer-term payoff.

It is actually easier to

a) explore space, and create intrastellar colonies into which we can expand, than

b) persuade people to stop using up the Earth's limited resources and doubling the population every 50 years

Improved tech has helped, but that's just a bandaid. Try telling people they can't have all the babies they want, and see what kind of response you get.