Sir David Attenborough says we in serious trouble if we dont change our ways.

[Ducimus]

Originally Posted by Codz

Most people in the year 1875 probably didn't think that the world would progress very fast either. Less than one hundred years later we invented prop aircraft, jet aircraft, nuclear bombs, nuclear energy, manned and artificial space flight, and we walked on the Moon.

Man rediscovered oil.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History...Modern_history

Originally Posted by Codz

We haven't really had an administration that really cared about space since JFK/LBJ.

Two words:

Cold War