Answer to Ian Wollard

Al Globus wrote:

> The government
> space program is definitely cash negative (lots of expenditure, very
> little income),

Um. Urrr. Excuse me; what did you expect them to do with your
tax money? Do you actually know of ANY government EVER that
made a profit? They don't have to make money, except for
the national mint of course, but that doesn't count ;-)

In fact NASA cannot make money. Any money they make goes
straight back into the government coffers. NASA cannot
grow, hence it will eventually die.

Another way to look at the same thing, the governments of
the world are investing in the future of this planet. Of
*course* they will make a loss in the short term.