25th June 2010, 11:01 AM
Because in the 60's we were getting to the moon because we were racing there with the Soviets. There's no pressing need to go there now. I think we've got enough pressing matters going on in our own little rock in space, let's sort some of those out before we go looking at other ones. Unless the cure for Cancer or the Fountain of Youth is definitively found on Mars or elsewhere, I'll happily settle for a get-there-when-we-get-there time frame. Are we in that much of a hurry for dust, rocks, and...more rocks?
The Earthworker Race has ended. Everybody wins.