[RightWhale]

Good post. There is a lot of the same old argument in Dubya's space initiative.

[Aracelis]

Great post!

[RLK]

Until there in a breakthrough in basic physics and engineering resulting in a new propulsion system, talk about further space travel is a fraud. To travel any distance, it would take days, months, and years for radio communications to travel between any space vehicle and earth.

[cake_crumb]

Good post. VERY good points. At first I thought it was about Kennedy's plans to send men to the moon until I saw the price tag.

[JohnnyZ]

I think we should just keep using the Stargate for the time being.

[Porterville]

You mean that there may actually be valuable technological breakthroughs and natural resource discovery that are directly related to space exploration??

[Kirkwood]

"Undaunted Courage" is a great book on Lewis and Clark if you are into history. Written by the late, ivory-tower, ultra-liberal, McGovern-lover, Nixon-hater Stephen Ambrose... but I don't hold that against him. I can get past that and appreciate what he wrote. His research staff didn't get enough credit though for his success.

[marron]

They said the same things when we bought Alaska.

[ambrose]

Sec. of State Seward's greatest achievement was purchasing Alaska from Russia for under 10 million dollars. Back in his day, they called it "Seward's Folly".. Some sheep just have no forward thinking vision. Thankfully, we have had leaders to rise above the naysaying voices.

[longtermmemmory]

bump and psych!