Your "rebuttals" are a prime example of normalcy bias.
Not surprising though, pretty much everyone born in the past 60 years has become accustomed to a ridiculous "normal" that has been built on a fossil fuel house of cards.
The space program has been (and will continue to be) directly responsible for many important technologies that lift the tide for ALL of humanity. Yes, even those who live in poverty.
If you are interested in learning how, read this short letter:
Nice work on the new site, the design looked great!
It's nice to see you acknowledge that things were rocky with Posterous but you are now moving forwards in a new direction based on your past learnings.
After all, isn't that one of the great things about being human? We can all learn from our past mistakes and strive to better than the person we were yesterday.
When planning a landing site for each rover mission, NASA considers a variety of factors and makes a best-guess as to the fruitfulness of each site from a scientific perspective.
Clearly a team of brilliant scientists has not failed to consider the possibility of exploring these strange spidery features, but they have decided against it for the time being.
It doesn't really make sense to assess their "strange priorities" as an outsider looking in with very limited knowledge as to how their decision making process actually works.
You may be able to get away with that high price point if you let people try your service for free first. That way you can really prove your USP.
Most entrepreneurs start multiple businesses, so they may likely pay large sums of money for your service in the future if they were given a chance to try it once for free.
Surely info suppression tactics have often played a role?