Quote Originally Posted by Oppositional P
Our astronauts are still amusing themselves w/ amazingly important discoveries like wether or not a yo-yo will work in zero gravity. Silly crap like a planet somewhere can wait until the folks at NASA are done worshiping themselves.
Are you insinuating that astronauts and NASA aren't doing anything productive or aren't doing useful science? Sure, they're not perfect, but the space program is one of the few really productive things that our government does for humanity. I don't know where you get this idea that they're just fooling around with yo-yo's. They're discovering the history of the universe, developing new technologies, working out problems in physics, and building our planet's global communications system.

Long live humanity! Long live the space program!
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Besides, this discovery was not made by any government space program. Regular astronomers did this, to expand their knowledge of astronomy. What's the objection to that?