[kittymyrib]

Space exploration of this kind is a black hole into which billions of taxpayer dollars are sucked for absolutely NO useful reason. Who cares what is so far out in space that we could never reach it? Even if Sedna, a goofy PC name if I ever heard one, were an asteroid coming toward earth to demolish it, what could we do about it? Absolutely nothing. Couldn't all this research be put to better use than pursuing what equates to spending one's life making a giant ball of string?

[LibWhacker]

Exploration always pays off in the end and frequently turns out to have been necessary. I want to take an axe to federal spending myself, but there are MUCH juicier targets out there than basic scientific research.