User blog comment:Elseweyr/Mass Effect bubble soon punctured?/@comment-8419211-20130725213545/@comment-1786741-20130726063517

To be fair, investing money in space travel IS a waste of money when we're at a point that it wouldn't provide us much and that we're not exactly at a point where we can sink a lot of money into something that won't provide any sort of return for a LOOONG while. Also, I hate that Arthur Clarke quote when it's used to handwave things you can't explain. It's one thing to previously have tech that's already been established to be so advanced that it can basically do anything, it's another to just throw it into a world where tech is fairly grounded in some sort of scientific jargon and simply give "it's just REALLY advanced technology" as some sort of excuse.