[norwaypinesavage]

This sure seem like an awful lot of shoveling for a quite useless hole. So we "tow" s useless rock from one place in space to another, and then "visit" it. What have we gained? We can already determine it's makeup from instruments. Even if it were pure gold, the value would be far less than the cost.

This sure sounds like something Obama dreamed up in one of his adolescent nightmares.

[cripplecreek]

Just yesterday we sent one of the Kelly brothers to space for a year to find out what we already know.

Homer Hickam was complaining about it on twitter yesterday saying we should be looking for ways to overcome the damaging effects of space travel instead of proving what we already know.

I personally think we should be concentrating on living on the moon and using it as the jumping off point for deeper space.