I guess I could have also gone with -10,000 feet elevation, and taken it underground or underwater. Didn't even think about that until you started talking about planet expansion, and hey, I wouldn't even need that to happen. :)
I think as long as STEEM's value is in the hands of the speculators, it's going to take a lot of SP in order for it to mean much for any of our votes to be worth at 100%, let alone if we try to divvy them up and dish them out. That's probably the one thing that truly irks me about this $0.25 USD garbage dump of a value. I keep painstakingly upping my SP and someone comes along and dumps STEEM.
It's sad enough to see what I have in my wallet, but the upvote amount—at one point after HF20, I was able to hand out $0.30-plus 100% upvotes, before the reward pool settled back down. Then, I was around $0.18-20 USD. Now, it's half of all that.
It's like one step forward and two steps back.
Sci-fi be crazy!
Yeah, I get the frustration too. I had a delegation of 2000 SP at one point when I didn't have much SP on my own. At that time I was giving out $0.21 upvotes. It was glorious! Now I am around $0.01 - $0.02.
I don't think HF21 is going to make things better, at least for the authors. It will be interesting to see what happens going forward.