Originally Posted by Push-Pull

Sorry Sun, I'm still not buying it. I have a hard time believing that the gubment would spend countless dollars planning, protecting, and executing something of this scale when it could achieve the same thing in a much more efficient means at a greatly reduced cost. That is not to say that the gubment doesn't spend gobs of cash on silly/sinister things, but simple logic tells me that when there's a way to do something like this and still have enough money left over to buy everyone involved a yacht, then that's the way they'll do it.

Of course, applying "simple logic" to anything the government does is probably my failing point......