Quote Originally Posted by Geoff Parkstone View Post
To a degree it's knowledge for the sake of knowledge but then so is, for example the study of English literature, the Latin language etc. Should we stop spending money studying that ??

Besides exploration of the moon could result in Farage finding somewhere to deport the illegals too instead of Rwanda ��
Or, as already suggested, we could just ‘deport’ Farage, Trump, Putin and the Ayatollahs there and be much better off knowing that space exploration has benefitted human kind after all.

Hope things are looking up for you, GP, but I don’t think you can really compare the funding for the study of English literature with the amount spent on the space race.