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human
[The Martian] Was there any opposition to putting in billions, if not trillions, into multiple attempts to rescue just one person?
gpt
Nobody who mattered, and nothing that made a big enough splash to get national coverage.

Sure, there were plenty of people posting to Facebook and other social media that it was a waste of money to rescue one man from Mars when there are billions of dollars worth of problems that still need solving on Earth, but from the people who mattered?  Not at all -- Watney was considered an international hero for even *trying* to stay alive on Mars after the world thought he was dead.  There's no politician or pundit alive who could survive the storm of negative press they'd get trying to fight his rescue.