[RightWhale]

Watching bugs flail around and plants grow in confused directions until they die is hardly science. Physics is science. Astronomy is science. Even chemistry is science. Biology is sort of science sometimes, but doing biology in space is pointless if we are not going out there ourselves. Science is a flimsy reason for a space program.

[zencat]

Astronomy is science.

Right which is why we send probes to other objects to obtain evidence. To observe, and record things not possible from the earth bound perspective.

Biology in space is not pointless whether humans go or not. It tells us a great deal about the interaction of biophysical and biochemical forces.

[Names Ash Housewares]

“Science is a flimsy reason for a space program.”

Perhaps at times, but that is not the reason we do these kind of things, see my post #34....

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1901453/posts?page=34#34