From the image description: The universe is probably littered with the one-planet graves of cultures which made the sensible economic decision that there’s no good reason to go into space–each discovered, studied, and remembered by the ones who made the irrational decision.
I wonder, if all the money we’ve spent fighting the war on drugs, and/or the war on terror were instead spent on R&D grants & loans for space exploration & exploitation, would we be busy mining asteroids and inflating them into space stations?
