Allow me to repost my original post:
http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/space/0...ons/index.html
Yippee, we're going to...the moon?
Americans just spent another $450 million to launch a couple probes to, yes, the moon.
We are in debt up to our eyeballs to foreign countries yet our government continues to spend as if there's no problem?
Should we continue allowing the government to waste our money like this? (I definietely see it as a waste of money.)
Is NASA, as has been said about AIG, too big to be allowed to fail?
What will be accomplished by sending probes to the moon? It's not as if mankind will be able to just fly over to it and live there when we kill this planet. It doesn't have oxygen.
I think it's wishful thinking and a complete waste of taxpayer money that could be better spent paying off our debt to the rest of the world. (The interest alone will keep America enslaved to other countries for generations to come.)
Are our elected leaders doing what is best for us by launching rockets to the moon?
Now that you've (hopefully) read what I originally posted, let me ask this:
What do you think will be accomplished by launching unmanned probes to the moon? Will we find life on another planet? Medical advances? Signs of former life on a rock that has no atmosphere? How will that help us today or tomorrow?
$450 million is a lot of money to blow revisiting where man has already gone before.