[oh8eleven]

the cost of figuring out what these things are
We - i.e. the gubmint - have been looking since the 1950s ... about 75 years, with nothing to show for it. Time to quit.
It's like NASA wanting to go back to the moon. Been there, done that - there's nothing there. Time to quit.

[backwoods-engineer]

It's like NASA wanting to go back to the moon. Been there, done that - there's nothing there. Time to quit.

Wow. Fine. Leave it to private companies, to make TRILLIONS from the moon's Helium-3 and light gravity well. We'll mine the gold, titanium and silver in the Near-Earth asteroids while you complain.