Yep, leave space exploration to the Europeans, China, India, etc.
Can't be looking at the globe either, observation just might show that's it's warming!
Besides, we must fund the 1%ers taxcut and the elimination of the "death tax".
Alex
"There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge."
-- Isaac Asimov