Bush Advances Humanity, Despite Liberal Nay-Sayers

[CoconutCommander]

Exploration has been a part of human advancement for centuries.

Ha! Ive used that line, before. It had nothing to do with space though. Chicks dig a good arguement for @#$%ing.

What exactly drives you Commander? What is your goal?

I suppose I see nothing wrong with space exploration. To me it is a little pointless right now, but I can understand the necessity of it. Has anyone here read Hammer of God by Arthur C Clarke? The book takes place a few hundred years in the future and we have colonies already set up on the moon and on mars and are in the process of establishing colonies on europa, as well as a multitude of space stations. Terraforming mars is a big ongoing project that humans were in the process of while the book takes place. Anyways the book goes on to discuss the benifits of not having all our "eggs in one basket" by having an asteriod pummel towards earth.

I just cringe everytime I see a multibillion dollar space project get lifted off the ground. I know those em effs are going to be up there for a month, come back down and be national heros, but noone will really know what they did up there other than float around and drink Tang. I still dont know why they are sending people up there. What the hell are NASA's missions anyways? Go there and then come back?