Why are leftists/liberals so against space travel and space exploration? I can’t understand it. It’s such a rabid and oddball posture about something that such a tiny, tiny part of any budget (public or private) and that has such a positive effect on the world.

Well, when a mega-asteroid kills us all, we can (accurately) blame the liberals for putting the kibosh on space programs. Or (god forbid) when we actually need to resort to geo-engineering because we are all out of other options, guess what? A lot of that is going to need to be done in space, and we’ll need the know-how to do that.

The left’s opposition to anything to do with space is just fundamentally bizarre. I can’t comprehend it no matter how much mental effort I dedicate to it.