I cannot do anything else but agree with you, partially at least. That is because without space research we may very well face the destiny of the dinosaurs some day. We already have made our first planetary defence experiment (DART) and now we are not completely defenceless against a bad-a** asteroid or comet. Don't you think this worths the penny? But I have to agree also with you because we cannot afford losing minds either by poverty or by criminal minds and certainly not by mindless leaders whose only thought is "let's slap each other in the head until there will be only one" ( - sounds kind of "I am Duncan Maccloud of the Maccloud family" from "Highlander - The immortal" except they are not). Meanwhile our common spaceship bleeds the life out of it but no, we are too busy slapping each other in the head...