there's just no Space for crap like this in the budget

are you ready for a rant? good, it's not like you have a choice.
The Space Association.
which one? who cares. they're all working for the same thing. "hey everybody, we're going to go to _________ and find out some stupid little thing about it!" watching the news yesterday, i heard news of plans to send some sort of device, whether spaceship full of humans or other, to a planet, possibly mars (hey, give me a break, it's not like i watch the news attentively) and discover if there was liquid water there. "we've already found ice, we want to see if liquid water exists there". you know where we need water? MANY IMPOVERISH COUNTRIES WORLD WIDE. now i respect the dreams of every young aspiring astronaut who believes that yes, it is essential that we know exactly what is on every other planet at this moment immediately. but maybe they should be making these predictions and experiments on their own time, in their own news feed, and most importantly, on their own dime. right now, there are hundred of thousands of people dying because they don't have the money to buy themselves food, water, shelter, clothing, or essential medical attention. you watch commercials asking for donations, or even just sending out a message about genocide, starvation, etcetera, and think to yourself, "but what can i do?". well if you knew how much money these space associations receive to carry out their ridiculous experiments to discover what? a fact that will change one paragraph on one page of one hardly used, dusty textbook in some kid's back pack that he will skim over once before discarding. this enrages me. i say we solve our world's problems first, then we discover and tend to the problems of the stuff happening light years away. it's understandable to have difficulty prioritizing say, your family life and your academic life. but in your own world vs. in a completely different planet? if you have to even think about that, then you're one of them, and you can just go squander your own money on building some failed machine, thanks.
teagan