Just like an idea of using an oil-powered carriage instead of a good'ol horsie was in 1910.

Listen, I totally agree, the tech makes absolutely no sense. It does not. But the fact that someone is willing to spend money on figuring this out is pretty good. The worst thing is going to happen, we'll have a cheaper space travel. And let the guys to have the first hit at it, wasting money on an enormous amount of research needed.

Ain't my money being spent.

As long as we don't have to use Russian rockets to send the US payload to the orbit, I'm cool with it.

It is your money being spent. ~40B so far. Though half of that is for services.

But more abstractly, it's our resources that are being allocated. The planet as a unit is deciding where to put it's effort. Apparently we're not very good at this

I can’t take any of it seriously.