Greenies outnumber spacies 10-to-1
That's a statistic I pulled out of MY butt.....but nevertheless they are a heck of a lot more of them than us. They are overwhelmingly anti-nuclear on Earth, which shows they are immune to dialog or reason. Therefore, how do you think they'll react to NASA "polluting" the "pristine" environment of space with derivative technology of the corporate-welfare crony-capitalism military-industrial complex blah blah blah insert poisonous insane neo-Marxist codswallop here.
"Remember Hiroshima and Chernobyl!"