Eh, anomalies like that just indicates the big priorities are elsewhere. You know how in civ only one thing gets researched at a time? IRL never ever falls to one advance progressing at a time, but progress on earth still has finite dispersion. The tangles clear when higher priorities resolve.
Meatvats are coming online, f’rex, and SpaceX is still in the space race. That’s where attention is.
Jace Nguyen
But it isn't judging by the percentage of scientific funding. The whole fixation with space is fueled simply on romanticism, engineers, and pop science public lemmings rather than actual science by scientists and as the megacorps, universities, and the Chinese progress with their AI and genetic modification ambitions it'll be the "it" issue of the decades to come.
