extra terrestrial space junk or techno-junkies expanding waste lines

[alice wellintown]

of course i am curious about the red planet, but not that curious, i
mean, i do not want a ticket to mars, not even as my final frontier
flight into the great night that is death, no major tom tin can for
me, but what a waste, a waste of money out there, and this line to
mars, this phone call to a robot curiosity costs too much and can not
be justified by all the waste we wallow in here on the blue planet. to
man with a hammer everthing is a nail, and to a techno-junkie with a
budget, every gadget is indispensible to the project. waste not want
not, but where is the fun in that one wonders, unless of course, one
has a desperate need for funding a project that is short because some
techno-junkie is wasting away the money

http://www.johnkay.com/2012/08/22/why-do-we-need-to-pay-billions-of-pounds-for-big-projects