The Eighth Day
And on the Eighth Day, the Lord sayeth: "Behold, my mighty balls of fire"
Posts by sumisu
3 publicly visible posts • joined 20 Jan 2010
NASA telescope gazes into heart and soul of universe
Obama to scrap Moon, Mars expeditions - report
Thursday 28th January 2010 19:52 GMT 
Good
Given how much the ISS has done for science and commercial applications of its tech (heavy sarcasm), I'm glad we're not going to throw $100bn into a pit to put someone on Mars to do what unmanned rovers are already doing there, right now, at a fraction of the cost. Manned space travel has a deadly combination of romantic allure and monumentally horrible return on investment, and in the end economics always wins. If it weren't for the Cold War, we'd probably still be waiting for someone to set foot on the Moon...
Biting the hand that feeds IT
