[mikesim (Mike)]

I'm may be alone here but i can't help feeling that life as we know it in "the west" is breaking down. The USA with massive debt, Europe breaking down, China in bubble land, even us in Australia with our bubble property and bubble resources boom.
Wouldn't it be great if we were part of a civilisation that knew how small and irrelevent we were on the cosmological scale and were making a focused effort to try and colonise one of the other 100 000 000 000 000 000 other planets out there? Our greatest achievement as a species was to land on the moon some 40 years ago. Since then western civilisation and government has been taken over by small minds who's only reason to be there is to make themselves powerful and rich and appear important. How sad and pathetic for the only species we know of that is starting to understand how large, unknown, beautiful and dangerous the universe really is.
Channel 7's next hit should not be "dancing with the stars episode 20" but "dancing with extinction episode 1".