Space Exploration, Funding and Benefits

I read comments on various websites from people that obviously do not research, or bother to learn anything about, the subject they are commenting about.

This wouldn't bother me much except that it seems to be very prevalent.

In this post I am going to correct some misconceptions in regards to space exploration, funding for space operations and exploration. This will, hopefully, shed some light on the benefits of space operations and exploration.

Some of these misconceptions are so obvious that I do not understand why anyone would actually believe them.