[jaguar]

*yawn*
Nice rant. Pity you missed my point entirely, go back to cooking dinner, please, i wasted part of my precious 56k of bandwidth downloading your crud, i'd rather now have to again at least till i'm back on cable.

Now, i hate repeating myself but clearly you were too busy peeling potatos to read what i was talking about:

We explore space because we need a frontier, that I agree with, but not strictly because the government needs it. Humanity needs it. If there's nothing to strive for, even vicariously, what's the point of all this?

In my post i specificaly stated:

Don't get me wrong, it's facinating, but no more than any other branch of science

(except i missed the i in facinating)

Now, since you were a little to engrossed in whether the pasta was al dente last time to work out what i was saying, i'll join the dots for you to make life easier.

My issue was with elspode's "Humanity needs it". Which, as i stated, as far as i'm concerned, is bullshit. It relates to an issue far deeper than GPS, foil containers or batteries. This idea that all of us need some mostly abstract intangible goal to make ourselves feel better, than the human race needs some idotic goal of putting something or someone somewhere that requires allot of work for the good of the mental wellbeing of all people. Thus, what i was saying, abliet inarticulately, was that I, don't need that, nor do i beleive many other people do.

That.
I what i had a problem with. As i have previously stated, science involved with the space program is often deeply interesting and has been responsible of yes, hundreds of breakthroughs that have been absorbed into everydaylife. On the other hand, that was not what i was talking about. A point you clearly missed.

I did not for example state:
"i think the science program has never produced anything of value i've had anything to do with"
Or
"I have never come into any contact whatsoever with anything that was produced, researched or developed as part of scientific research associated with or directly part of space program"

So how about your dumb-founded, idiotic post and ram it up your arse. Read before you fly off the handle, halfwit.

Now personally i beleive you're just using this as a way to vent frustration caused by other elements of your life, so do us all a favour and next time take it out on the carrots before you jump online.