Here's an article from a site I go to every now and then to read and make comment at, OpEd News. It's about human spaceflight and the costs, risks and viability involved in putting humans into space. The guy who wrote it, Gregory Paul, has some good points to make. However, I have never read anything more pessimistic and depressing about space travel in all my life. I'm somewhat pessimistic about the US getting back into space anytime soon, given the situation they find themselves in (all of their own making). But this guy....if it was upto him, we'd go hide under our little rocks and never set foot outside our own homes!!. We'd be stuck here, forever, and the only exploration would be done by our proxies....little beeping tin cans with the brains of lobotomised ants. Or maybe, in the far future, they may have the brains the equivalent of lobotomised mice.
Not only pessimistic and depressing, but also insular and defeatist.
All I can say is, thank the stars this guy has little to do with government policy or the space program (what's left of it).
http://www.opednews.com/articles/The...10721-407.html