My problem is not with space exploration or the money spent, or whether this is an american thing or what ever. Because we have the ability to reason, we (humans)need to make ourselves feel like we are something greater than we are, so we push ever outward. Albeit a futile effort, as we will very likely annihilate ourselves before the inhabiting of another celestial body would ever be feasable.
No, my issue with this kind of so called "great accomplishment" for mankind, is that its a slap in the face for anyone of reasonable intelligence. Watching the advances that flight has made in the 106 years since the Wright Bros were in Kitty Hawk, and being told in that same time, we still can't get a combustion engine that gets over 50 miles to the gallon with power. 106 years ago, two guys flew 150 yards on canvas and wood. Since then we have sent a spacecraft, traveling 17,000 mph, outside the Kuiper belt while sending back radio transamissions, and I am supposed to accept that 40 MPG is great.
Pay no attenttion to the man behind the curtain, Dorothy.
Yea! Go Mars rover.
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