NASA and DEATH

NASA's budget is being cut. Excuse me while I mourn for a while.

"sniff"

Although it makes sense that space exploration is not the highest priority when bailing out big buisness is necessary to preserve the existence of America. And global foriegn relations are deteriorating. And the environment is toast.

It's this last one that is problematic. If America dies, gosh forbid, at least the Chinese and Russians will continue the Human Race (And Mandarin sounds cooler than english too). If the earth Dies, we're kinda screwed.

Not that all hope is lost. Obama is providing $6 billion for commercial space exploration. If we build one within 15 years, we may get to Gilease 581 (a potentially habital planet 20 light years over Australia in sprin (or maybe fall)) by 2300. Wee!

Also, the new NASA will focus more on earth, so we can understand ourselves more.