It's not that they don't want to or that they aren't putting enough effort into it. It's that they're drastically underfunded. They receive far less money than any other government organization, and the government expects them to work on so many projects at once that they can't really get everything done that they want to. For example, Bush told NASA that he wants to see a man on the moon again and a man on Mars, but didn't provide them with any extra money to get that done, so they've had to cut current projects to start working on that. It's really sad, actually. We're wasting so much money building the largest military in the world into an even larger military so we can more efficiently battle other countries, when we could be investing in our species' common future in outer space.
Oneironaut Reviewed by Oneironaut on . Earth-like planet discovered around another star! This is seriously some cool shit. :smokin: Exoplanets | Sister Earth | Economist.com Apr 25th 2007 | EARTH From Economist.com Is there anybody out there? IF EXTRATERRESTRIAL life were to exist, it would need a planet on which to evolve. All but one of 200-or-so planets outside the solar system discovered by astronomers so far would be quite unsuitable. That is because these planets are composed of gas. Yet the one whose discovery was announced in the early hours of Wednesday April 25th Rating: 5