re: I know you're going to clobber me
I would probably have a different opinion of the Space Station if a good portion of the American population was starving to death, or if the Space Station was an unworkable hulk, orbiting empty, never to support astronauts.
The cost of that useless skyscraper was two percent of North Korea's total GDP, in a nation filled with starving people. Multiply that by every idiotic socialist monument they have built in that country.