As a student, I would be pretty happy if I had actually drank beer all time instead of studying for that test and had my gigantic failure thrown out because other people cheated.

Wow, being colonist of a new world. I'd like so much being part of it, I'd kill for it! Wait, what the ad just say...

The real issue here is not about government spending on the army or other [insert field where you think gov spends too much] over the space program. Its more space program money might have been spent on more space probes, more telescopes, more scientific satellites, etc. which might have had more scientific profit.

According to this: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7813635.stm, the milky way is roughly the same size as Andromeda. Therefore, we won't be devoured, it will be a nice and slow merging.