Here's a recent e-mail inquiry which is characteristic of most, along with my answer. Save the earth. Hello Randy, I'm a student in a local college in Malaysia. I'm assigned to do a research on whether the funds used to support space exploration programs are efficiently used. If not, the fund would might as well used to save the earth.
Any help is very much appreciated.
That is a deception. That does not seem like the extra help they really need to save them. Well for one thing without the space program you and I could not be having this e-mail conversation because there would be no communications satellites. There would be no weather satellites so there would be little or no warning of hurricanes or typhoons. I'm not sure about Malaysia, but in the United States it is now unusual for a lot of lives to be lost in a hurricane, whereas in the past we could lose thousands of lives to these storms.