Ed, I was not trying to be negative, just attempting to point out where the priorities are of the billionaire class. Rather than help the rest of humanity rise up after they have exploited the planet and workers for their ill-gotten wealth, they decide to fund their childish dreams. It is an infantile state that many of them are stuck in, I don’t see any other way of explaining it. Exploration is one thing I support with many reservations, but the fact remains space development and plans to colonize Mars are almost certainly centuries off. Not to mention, it is not their money and their decision to make. They stole the profits from their workers.