Dude, joints of random shake at a dispo here in Portland are like... waaay cheaper than that. You live in the wrong state. Move to Oregon and help us use civil disobedience to secede from the union and form Cascadia...
Space news is always captivating. What's happening on earth is a forgettable blip in our cultural history, especially considering that it's all stuff that has definitely happened many times before. The first tentative steps into the cosmos will be remembered well once we've gotten out there.