Comment Re:No funding. (Score 0, Offtopic) 45
Note that when I am an old person (and I am not required by the government to spend a portion of my income on pain pills! But that would get us totally off-topic), I will be free to contribute that money to something like space exploration voluntary, oh, heck, sign up for a one-way trip to Mars!
But, I guess, I am already old enough by now (and lived under too many nominally different governments) not to have high hopes for having a "wise one" anymore any time soon...
Also, "all the money is here on this old one" -- only for your definition of "money", pieces of paper which might or might not buy anything at any given time or location, or, even more current, some trailing zeros in a 64-bit number on a bank computer. If one defines money as something that people are willing to use for exchange, I can see how He3 would work nicely, and there is much more of it up there than down here...
Paul B.
P.S. To two other people who replied -- yes, this is off-topic, but invitation was built right into the summary, in the form of "if any are ever funded" whining. And no, I was not talking about space businesses (though, I'm all for that!), but possible non-profit exploration -- thus, estimated possibility of chip-in funds from individuals to fund equivalent of NASA, not possible business investments! For the record, I did join at a very early stage a risky private start-up operating on the fine edge between science and science fiction, putting my life efforts and possible $$ where my mouth is, thank you!
P.P.S Why does