[E Rocc]

Manned space flight is an anachronism. It impedes space exploration and exploitation.

Eventually we're going to want to start settling on other planets, outside the solar system even. Neither the Earth nor the Sun are going to last forever, but humanity can outlast both if we keep space exploration going.

-Eric

[Man of the Right]

It will be billions of years before the sun consumes the earth.

Given human aggression, the Islamofascist ideology, WMD proliferation and the declining barriers to accessing these weapons (technology, cost), in your opinion, how long will it be before the following occurs?
1. A WMD attack on a U.S. metro area
2. WMD attacks become routine in the U.S.
3. U.S. civilization is destroyed
4. The human race self-immolates