toyomotor
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Annually, billions of dollars are spent on space research, including moon flights, space stations and so on. Thousands of people are employed on astronomy and its various scientific offshoots like the Hadron Collider. In my view they are unimportant when considering that so much is unknown about the planet we live on, its inhabitants and their daily lives. Millions are dying due to malnutrition and disease, and yet the great good which could be done to end this is ignored. I would be happier to see the billions spent on space research spent on aid to the starving, health research and means by which life on earth could be made more sustainable, on unification of warring factions and the general enrichment of life on earth.