We’re thinking of getting out, too. I’ve loved this state since I first visited it on a family vacation over half a century ago, but the inmates are running the asylum in Sacramento.
I was alive then, a few months after Apollo 11, but I’d never heard the full story of what had happened there; I only knew that there was another music festival, like Woodstock.
At the Space Settlement Summit a few weeks ago, I pointed out that there are some people who will oppose space settlement not because of the cost, but because they think that humanity is an infestation that must not be allowed to spread beyond the planet of its birth. Here’s a good example (for anyone who was a fan of Momoa before).
The problem with @dburbach's study is that it doesn't account for the profound ignorance of most Americans about how much NASA spends, or how ineffectively much of it is spent. They assume that more $$ ==> better results, when there is little actual correlation.
She should certainly be punished, and made an example of, but this to me would cry out for jury nullification. There is way too much prosecutorial overreach, particularly with feds.
When I was a kid, I thought we’d be a lot further along, technologically, by now. Though maybe we’re getting close to flying cars. And while the world of 2001: A Space Odyssey is decades late, it looks like it’s finally approaching as well.