NASA Receives $11 billion bid to return Martian soil samples

NASA is having great difficulty returning Mars soil samples to Earth for a "fair price."

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson demands a lower delivery fee in the range of only two or three billion dollars.

Is it worth it? Is it worth spending billions of dollars to return a box of Martian dirt to Earth?

How much crack would one have to smoke to rationalize spending billions of tax dollars for one good hit of uncut Martian red dust?

Of course guvmint scientists and industry experts will tell you that spending billions of tax dollars is worth it, because the results may provide a clue as to the origins of the Red Planet and the Universe.

Really? You want fries with that dirt box of rocks?

When anyone confronts Elon Musk about the astronomical, out-of-this-world cost for the American taxpayer, Elon Musk lies, and it goes like this:

"Um, I don't need taxpayers to fund my projects - I will fund them myself and raise billions from investors."

Really? You don't say, do you?

Neil DeGrasse Tyson exposed Musk's fundraising claim as non-existent bullcrap:

“I have strong views on that,” deGrasse Tyson said.

“My read of the history of space exploration is such that we do big, expensive things only when it’s geopolitically expedient, such as we feel threatened by an enemy.

And so for him to just say, let’s go to Mars because it’s the next thing to do.

What is that venture capitalist meeting look like?

‘So, Elon, what do you want to do?’

‘I want to go to Mars?’

‘How much will it cost?’

‘$1 trillion.’ ‘Is it safe?’

‘No. People will probably die.’

‘What’s the return on the investment?’

‘Nothing.’

That’s a five minute meeting. And it doesn’t happen.”

“At some point somebody has to pay for it and just being interested in something is not the same thing as paying for it.”

Musk responded Saturday on X, metaphorically slapping his forehead in disbelief.

“Wow, they really don’t get it. Mars is critical to the long-term survival of consciousness. Also, I’m not going to ask any venture capitalists for money. I realize that it makes no sense as an investment. That’s why I’m gathering resources.”

Musk then got in a darker mood, questioning deGrasse Tyson’s motives for his comments.

“The real problem is that Neil decided to grovel to the woke far left when he got hit with a #MeToo. You can avoid being canceled if you beg for forgiveness and push their nonsense ideology. The truth hurts.”

The billionaire went on to make his case for doing a Mars venture.

“Even if we fail at creating a Mars colony that can grow without continuous support from Earth, the absurdly ambitious nature of the goal nonetheless results in the creation of alien-level technology that is crushingly better than competitors who merely aim for Earth orbit.”