Oooops, can't do that...

Didn't the Hitchhiker Guide have an episode in which the all the middle-managers were sent on the first space ship and the rest of the people were to follow? Ha...

Enough is enough; do the one thing that will get China's attention: import tariffs.

I cannot understand how there would be any "environmental and cultural impact" of such a telescope compared the monstrosities on beaches of Hawaii....

The vast majority of meteorites come from "the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter"....eeesh. And how can they tell; from the spectroscopic studies of asteroid...

The corporate weasels who are pushing this just want to be able to pay their workers less so they can get bigger bonuses at the end of the year. This is bad for the economy and bad for workers.

If MSL could find a fresh crater, it might have a chance to sample potential microbes / organics before the UV and peroxides break them down. The craters left by the tungsten EDL weights would be ideal but their craters are too far away....

X-Ray and, esp, gamma ray cannot travel too for through air....

Massachusetts will squander any additional tax revenues and be back the next year asking for more taxes. The state has an unlimited capacity spend (waste) tax dollars; the Big Dig construction project was supposed to cost 2 billion but came in at 14 billion and is so defective that it killed a driver a few years ago...

Enough is enough. Time for a tariff on all the crap that China is dumping on us. It would solve the budge crisis and bring industry back to the US.

That is the Chinese Water Army at work. The fascists that run that country are insanely sensitive to criticism....

You must work for the "gummint" or a gummint contractor...

Right now the church needs deep reforms, but they chose a stubbornly conservative Pope. It is time for the church to get out of the Middle Ages and liberalize its stance on abortion and gay marriage and it is way past due to drop the celibacy requirement for clergy

Well if NASA did not stop throwing billions down the manned spaceflight rathole, it would not be in such a mess. Nobody cares about ISS or SLS and few, if any, scientific discoveries has come from the manned missions. All the science (and excitement) is coming from robotic probes such as Curiousity. The SLS is the rocket to nowhere; its only purpose is to create jobs. Unfortunately NASA is run by ex-pilots, not scientists...

Europa is insanely hard to land on because you have to remove all the hardware once the mission is over to avoid contamination (he mission would also have to plutonium powered and you don't want to leave 10 pounds of that nasty stuff on the surface). Speaking of which, it would be insanely hard to sterilize a probe so that zero bugs are brought to Europa from Earth. And the probe would need extreme radiation hardening. Also you have to prevent the probe from melting the ice it is roving / sitting on. What makes more sense is an orbiting probe, but our President has nuked flagship planetary missions (except one last Mars mission).