President Bush is about to announce a new initiative in Space. Of course it will cost many Billions and there will be a large debate of the parochial and immediate needs of people for those billions of dollars. I must add to this debate some facts for the proponents of the Space program. If we try to measure the state of our Science we might realize that we are still relatively in the stone ages. And if so, then there would be still such great potential for new discovery and a commensurate great benefit to mankind. Much in the past...