The knowledge of why it's happening gives me extra shivers.

I love that we've been so blindly arrogant as to fly people to that distant, shimmering rock, even while I am appalled at our wasting our brilliance on such a distant dream, when just think of what that our imagination could do here, where we are.

I can't help but continue to be in favor of sending people to the moon and Mars. But I feel like it's not totally unjustifiable... we've gotten a lot of unexpected benefits from all the science and technology work that has gone into sending people into space. Right? Er. Maybe not enough to really justify it, but... c'mon! The moon! Mars! Amazing! :D