I'm scared.

[c9]

US President Bush appears to be planning to announce a new space mission / goal, possibly a return to the Moon for NASA. I'm scared, because it's the first time he's ever done ANYTHING I agree with! If he actually does it. I believe very strongly that as a species we need to explore, and exploring space (hopefully not fighting over it, but I suspect that's inevitable) is one way to a) annihilation-proof our species, b) gain access to new resources, and c) bump into the other species that live on other planets somewhere. My way of thinking is that if life evolved on Earth in so many ways, there have got to be other planets out there with life too -- especially considering how many planets we keep discovering at a distance.

Anyway, Buzz Aldrin has written an Op-Ed about the idea, and ways to improve it -- interesting reading for any geeks out there.

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Oh I still disagree with other crap he does of course. But I think there's a popular argument that goes along the lines of "but there are still problems down here to fix", and the problem I have with that is that there will ALWAYS be problems on Earth, but I think we need to think bigger. Since I can't convince Bush not to spend the $87 Billion on Iraq, I'd be okay with space and positive exploration being a distraction. You're right though, Republicans might support space exploration by reducing welfare and medicare...

And you forgot to use "-centric" in your post. Tsk tsk.