[Jaysun]

You can pretty much ignore anything NASA related in this post as they won't accomplish anything mentioned. The real news is the private sector moving into space in a big way.

Okay. But even that seems a bit absurd. Tourism? Is that it? I'll admit that I'm a bit disgusted with the whole affair. It seems so pointless to me. Maybe exploring the universe is a laudable goal, but even if a Martian Land Rover beamed back a picture of God struggling with the childproof cap on a bottle of Mylanta, I'm not sure what we paid for that cosmic Kodak moment wouldn't have been better spent somewhere else - anywhere else.

The guys that work at NASA here are into everything from dinosaur bones to the "global warming" farce. I mean, it's as if we're spending billions of dollars so that some godd***ed atheist can try to disprove the existence of God. I think it's absurd. I know that many think otherwise. I'll get over it.

[monkapotamus]

[saganite]

Nah, tourism is just a money generator to get some positive cash flow and keep the accomplishments in the public eye. There are more important goals these guys are shooting for. For instance, Bigelow is studying the possiblity of supplying their inflatable modules to the military for sattelite repairs. Turns out their design makes them very stealthy and the military wants to carry out unobserved updates and repairs in space.

[P-40]

It seems so pointless to me.

I'm sure someone told Columbus the same thing...