June is both UFO & Pride Month. Guess which one will gain more attention?

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It's interesting but mostly irrelevant for our purposes. If some kind of galactic federation / aliens exist, then we are at their mercy and have nothing to offer them. It could be possible (it's likely) any aliens are ahead of us technologically on geological timescales. We could not reach their level of development even in 1,000 years (assuming industrial society even lasted that long)

There are plenty of decent reasons to explore the solar system (mining asteroids, finding life, etc.) And maybe that's what these types are interested in - But $10B isn't really that much money and we aren't sending a starship to alpha centauri in anyone's lifetime. We are absolutely not competing with aliens in some kind of space war or even trading with them (we have nothing to offer them). Try and quell your space fantasy nerdgasms