The point is that you, the taxpayer, even if you don't care about space, has to spend less of your cash than the comparable ways of putting stuff up. Quite a lot less.

Reporter: “Is it worth it? Should we just pull back, forget the whole thing as a bad idea and take care of our own problems at home?”

Commander Sinclair: “No. We have to stay here. And there’s a simple reason why: Ask ten different scientists about the environment, population control, genetics, and you’ll get ten different answers. But there’s one thing every scientist on the planet agrees on: Whether it happens in a hundred years, or a thousand years, or a million years, eventually our sun will grow cold and go out. When that happens, it won’t just take us, it’ll take Marilyn Monroe, and Lao-tzu, and Einstein, and Morobuto¹, and Buddy Holly and Aristophanes, and all of this… and all of this was for nothing. Unless we go to the stars.”

— Babylon 5, Season 1 Episode 4, Infection (1994)

① Fictional

You just got an important earth science satellite placed in orbit for much less money than it would have cost purchasing that service from elsewhere.

This is u: https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/c6/22/62/c6226219c...

Earth is the cradle of humanity, but mankind can't stay in the cradle forever.

Haven't you got the memo? You are going to die, everyone you know is going to die and when the Sun explodes, Mars is not going to be spared either. This universe will end most likely in a heat death where life and computation will not be possible. Everything that is being done is ultimately pointless.

"A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in."

Then what's the point of complaining about it?

You must be fun at parties.