The economics of space colonization . . .

Rating: 9/10 (3 January 2017)

. . .are touted once again in PASSENGERS, as they were a few years back during AVATAR. Jennifer Lawrence, as journalist "Aurora Lane," estimates during PASSENGERS that America's first colonized planet boosted our Gross National Product (GNP) by $8 quadrillion (that is, by about 8,000,000,000,000,000 bucks), which is more than enough to upgrade our nuclear weapons arsenal while also fully funding ObamaCare, not to mention fixing our infrastructure by replacing every lead water pipe with gold and repaving every mile of our Interstate Highways with Titanium. As a side benefit, most of these New Earths Colonists will be bored Rich People, according to PASSENGERS. Just think how much better off America will be when the sort of billionaire bozos making up White House Resident-Elect Rump's Cabinet are instead put into "Hibernation" for 249 of the next 250 years, so that they can spend the remaining 12 months touring a Planet Far Far Away. By the time that these Fat Cat One Per Centers return here from the Great Beyond, they'll be someone else's Problem.