[harryK]

This kind of talk is what I'm talking about. We are tying national prestige on manned space flight. On the notion that technologic advance is based on sending people on mission that no one really cares about. Perhaps, if NASA had a grand vision guiding its programs. I would feel differently but they don't. They have been mess around running experiments only ivory tower academic care about. People still have stars in their eyes and nostalgia left over from our moon missions, and people have bought into the idea that if we just keep pluging away, we will one day have a STAR TREK. We can't even find a safe cheap, clean and renewable power source or stop killing each other. We have forty million Americans without health insurance. It will take 1.6 trillion dollars by some estimates to fix an aging infrastructure. GOD, help us. We need to get our heads out of the clouds.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

We need to get our heads out of the clouds.

No, we need to start acting like the great nation we are and stop running away from our importance to the world. Being the ones leading space exploration and the technological advances that come from that must be put back on the front burner. If we give this advantage to our enemies, we will live to regret it.

[KevinDavis]

You claim to be a consertive yet you are demanding that goverment spend money on this and that. I'm for private industry taking the human race to the stars. You must be afraid of new things.

[buccaneer81]

We can't even find a safe cheap, clean and renewable power source or stop killing each other. We have forty million Americans without health insurance. It will take 1.6 trillion dollars by some estimates to fix an aging infrastructure. GOD, help us. We need to get our heads out of the clouds.

Liberals, especially liberal newbies like you, are never amusing. Go vote for Nader.

[RightWhale]

We can't even find a safe cheap, clean and renewable power source or stop killing each other.

Why not just dump the lack of space exploration in the trash bucket--along with "power source," "murder," "starving children," "selfishly denying space to the masses"?

What does one problem have to do with the other? Self-deceit is the one mortal sin to exitentialists.