Taijitu Founder Looks to the Stars

[Eluvatar]

The recent popularity of a science-fiction TV show has prompted calls for Taijitu Founder to develop its own space program.

The Debate
1. "Don't tell me space colonies wouldn't be cool," says excited fifth-grade teacher Mattir Fulpagneo, still wearing big Spock ears from his last convention. "Think of how they would galvanize the national population! And there would also be some kind of scientific benefit, probably."

2. "The project certainly is feasible, but very expensive," says Taijitu Founder Space Agency Head Nelmil Moomintroth. "We could make it less of a burden on the taxpayers if we sought funding from private industry -- advertisements on the side of our rockets, selling contracts to the Arms Manufacturing industry, that kind of thing."

3. "If God had meant Man to fly, he would have given us solid rocket boosters instead of legs," says religious type John Miller. "We should not be looking to the stars, but rather inside our own hearts. That's why we should abandon this so-called space program, and instead make the teaching of religion mandatory in all schools."

[Eluvatar]

I think the final frontier is worth a little commercialism, don't you?

[McMasterdonia]

I certainly agree. I think to put the entire burden on the public sector would be a silly thing to do.