>And yes, humans are the main cause of the current mass extinction event.

Glad we can agree. So instead of stopping that we keep that moving forward by sending resources to space.

>Yeah, like how the smallpox vaccine program was really about weaponization. /s

You don't know that it wasn't government funded research? Seriously? You put /s as if you think the opposite of what you wrote. Which means you think the government decided to fund medical advancements back in late 1700s. They didn't, specifically England didn't.

Governments have however funded the weaponizing of vaccine technology with little success.

>You are completely wrong.

Then you go on to explain how I'm completely correct... I'm confused. The government poured money into nuclear energy only to weaponize it. Your explanation is out of fear that someone would weaponize it.

Fear realized!

But we'll never do anything like that again, right? We're interested in controlling astroids for good not evil, but if one other person says it could be used for evil you think we'll definitely not repeat an endless cycle of history. I'm sceptical.

>Sure, a lot space technologies can have military applications. So what?

You support war funding. That's all, not peace funding. You should just be honest with yourself. You're about self preservation and "protecting the planet" is incidental if it happens. It's the least important thing to you, but at least it's on the list.