> The proper way for you to indicate this sentiment is to downvote my post, and avoid commenting, as per the Hacker News guidelines.

Eh, I'm hoping dang will come by and detach the comment. It was a pretty classic middlebrow dismissal. "No need to read the comment! Someone compared something to the apollo project!", and etc.

> My point was that governments are unlikely to support 'moonshots', because the 'moonshots' are unpopular, as well as being bad investments.

There are other categories of public sentiment than popular and unpopular. It's not at all true that we don't fund things to the tune of tens of billions of dollars per year in the face of public lack of attention and apathy (and, actually, sometimes approval).