You must be a developer.
Don't forget about the massive amount of drugs. Birth control, antidepressants and other crap passes through the system untouched and fully active.
The Russians have the resources and experience that a world power with interests in maintaining security accumulate over years of rocketry development.
This is not Ford and Tesla.
The game is rigged. You are another sucker assuming there won't be another stock crash to redistribute your "earnings" to those who don't share your dream.
We warn the reader in advance that the proof presented here depends on a clever but highly unmotivated trick. -- Howard Anton, "Elementary Linear Algebra"