If you ever want to get really depressed, just dwell on how much money we could have invested in science, technology, the arts, education, and so on, if all of the governments of the world, especially the United States and the USSR, had invested in those areas instead of defense.
Sometimes I think we’ve done pretty well, considering how little we really invest in ourselves as a species. But then I think that if we’ve done all this with such a paltry sum, just imagine what we could have had. Just think how many more things from Star Trek we could have right now.
