Marina Koren has a deep dive into the mess at NASA. As I noted to her on Twitter, this goes all the way back to the 70s with Shuttle, when NASA should have told Congress it couldn’t be built to the USAF specs with the provided budget, but they instead moved forward and hoped for the best.
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—“Finding life outside our solar system and answering such a bold question—it’s hard to put a price tag on it,” Garver said. “However, I believe the taxpayer should expect us to.”–
I say it is worthless or has a negative value,
As would be finding life/alien life on Mars.
It would be one more stupid distraction.
It might change the world- but that could be quite bad, and there little in terms of any chance of any near term up side to it.
Alien life could be dangerous- and generally it is good to be aware of something which is dangerous. But that is about the only good part of it.
Now of course fame would involved, and it seems that is all people at NASA wish to seek, and FBI also seems want to seek fame, and look at the FBI- a bunch of clowns embarrassing the nation.
Finding complex life outside the solar system would be the worst news humanity has ever received. It would mean the Great Filter is likely before us, not behind us.