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Wow, that's a fantastic way of putting things into perspective. As much as I support having good museums (and building new ones as needed), the fact of the matter is that we already have a number of great art museums throughout the world, but we don't have a means of defense against asteroids.

I know a handful of smart, motivated people who are interested in working to advance science and technology (specifically space exploration, neuroscience, and probably a couple other areas), but are only semi-technical, and don’t really have a chance of working directly for a company in the field.

How can people in this situation make meaningful contributions to the science/tech fields they consider important? One of our ideas is to generate enough disposable income that we can afford to make investments in new companies that are doing important things, but might be too risky to appeal to traditional angel/VC investors. Is there something better that we should be considering?

Thanks for your answer, I'll start reading your blog and find some of the posts where you talk about this.

What do you think could be done to boost public support for space endeavors (both for things like Sentinel, as well as for manned missions) and hopefully, in turn, increase the amount of money we make available to NASA?