[Manly Warrior]

Brilliant men bumbling around the three billion year old dark of outer space.....

Meanwhile, research on diabetes, cancer aging illnesses and starvation are on the back burner.....

Put all space research onto the private sector (it will die), space flight in the military punch bowl and let origins be a philosophical discussion over folks favorite beverages....

So called “science” at work again. On the taxpayers dollar.

[Liberty Tree Surgeon]

Meanwhile, research on diabetes, cancer aging illnesses and starvation are on the back burner...
Not hardly - plenty spent on all these things, both public and private sector. And the issue with hunger isn't the quantity of food production - it's getting it to people who can also afford to PAY for it.

On the taxpayers dollar.
I believe this effort is privately funded.

[Pontiac]

So called “science” at work again. On the taxpayers dollar.

I think Global Warming has taught me all I need to know about taxpayer financed research.

It is a bad idea.

Tax dollars corrupts research. Such corrupted research corrupts the body politic.