Those pictures aren't worth jack shit though. Likes on Instagram and Tumblr doesn't help anyone and the ant's pace to progress is a net negative overall. It's the definition of stagnation. You talk about how NASA has proven that we can redirect an asteroid "with minimal effort" (you can't be serious right?) but you're not considering how inefficient this process truly was. It took them 6 years to even plan the shit out and then it took a whole year to even get the spacecraft to the asteroid after it launched. NASA saying "We redirected an asteroid!" is also very sensationalized compared to how little impact the spacecraft actually made on the asteroid. It barely even moved after the collision, the little gay graph on the Wikipedo article you linked even showed that (by the way, never link Wikipedo as "proof" of anything, never unironically share any source to back your claims that you know for a fact lies to fit their own political narrative unless you're making fun of how retarded the link you're posting is) and even stated in the article that the difference is only a slight change in trajectory and that they aren't even 100% sure how much it really worked. Better hope there is ZERO error on those data calculations if we actually needed to rely on this shit, the smallest error could fuck us and NASA has a reputation for not dotting their Is and crossing their Ts. I haven't even mentioned how sloppy and wasteful this was in the first place, the 30 million dollar spacecraft is destroyed never to be recovered. gone forever. This is one of SpaceX's biggest criticisms of NASA, the fact that they are so wasteful on purpose and never even attempt to salvage anything or plan ahead enough to integrate some way to get some of your money and hardware back. NASA has even lost most of their designs and blueprints anyway, another thing that astounds SpaceX, they have no clue how they lost so much knowlege that they previously had decades before. They had plenty of time with this shit, six years they prepped this project, probably over 6 years of designing. So I don't buy your theory that NASA is lazy because they are actually really frugal. They are the opposite of frugal, they flat out don't give a fuck.
Sending manned teams to the moon or to Mars is hands on human experience which is priceless and extremely important to the future. That can't be replicated by looking at fucking pictures on Facebook and Tumblr and the fact that you would even suggest such a thing is astounding to me. We might learn a new little thing or two every hundred years by sending retarded NASA bots to planets but that's just play pin goofing off in the grand scheme of what the end goals of space exploration is. We've been sitting on our asses for so long putting off thinking about space that by the time it's gonna be crunch time and we NEED to get into space, it's gonna be way too late because we've only ever sent bots to space and the last time a human went to the moon Stanley Kubrick was still alive. Yeah, sending people to the space is risky, no shit. That's why it's worth doing. I could list hundreds of human achievements of progress that were only accomplished through people risking their lives. That's just how it is.
