Originally Posted by waxmax

He's trying to say it looks like a giant cock and balls. Woot!

Anyway, we explore space for discovery. That's just human nature. I don't disagree with the folks who say the money could be better spent. The poor and starving will be taken better care of when someone figures out how to make money from doing it.

It just happens that we want to know whats out there and huge sums of money are being made to come up with the technology to take us there.