I've always been a fan of space exploration. & while it is costly, it isn't as costly as Bu$hCo's vanity war. For those of us old enough, remember how wonderfully fun it was to listen to Kennedy vow to get to the moon? I realize that there was plenty wrong in the 60s (Vietnam, Selma, MLK murdered, Bobby Kennedy murdered, Malcolm X, etc.), but the notion of space exploration & travel really caught my imagination. It's too bad that it was put on the back burner, a burner in need of replacement, no less. It was inspiring, something that has become a bad thing among certain progressive bloggers. It's quite the joke that these folks see themselves as flinty, hard-bitten realists, & those who find a man who can attract 75,000 people to a speech in Oregon are pie-in-the-sky dreamers. Well, Bu$hCo has won, up is now down.
This is Mars. Where are the Martians?

This is Mars. Where are the Martians?