[MineralMan]

"We should have been off this backwater hole thirty years ago. What is the holdup?"

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There's no national will to do it. Indeed, there's a growing trend to ridicule space exploration and science in general in this country. Sad stuff.

[bildabare]

And yes, I agree that we should have condos on Neptune by now. At the first manned moon launch, there was a crowd of about a dozen protesters that had signs saying that we should put the money for space exploration into social programs. They were ridiculed back then, but not any longer.

Look at the Russian Topaz nuclear rocket technology- we can't even begin to play with great tech like that without Whoopie Goldberg or Elton John types blowing whistles and halting production. And then there is the super collider being built in Europe, is it? That's shameful.

[Quark2005]

Indeed, there's a growing trend to ridicule space exploration and science in general in this country.

Do you really think it's a growing trend, or do the willfully ignorant now just have a louder voice with today's technology? I've often wondered which is really the case and can't honestly say I know the answer.

[SunkenCiv]

Indeed, there's a growing trend to ridicule space exploration and science in general in this country.

There's a general trend to hijack science in favor of a Luddite and/or Dhimmicrat agenda, whether it is stem-cells, global warming/greenhouse gases, sustainability, population explosion; if Apollo were done now, there would be no planting of the US flag. That is what disgusts people.