Tuesday, October 10, 2006
From David Galbraith:
"People complain about costly things such as space exploration and high energy physics experiments. Why spend money on these things when we have issues like poverty?
This argument is nihilistic. Why do we build monuments, paint, make films, write music, when there is still poverty all around? There is enough food in the world; poverty is the result of politics, exploitation and war above all.
Human space exploration is one of our greatest achievements. To try and rationalize unmanned space flight on the grounds of practicality misses the point."// posted by H. Brown @ 12:00 AM 