I wonder who said it was important to spend over a billion dollars to send a spacecraft to take close-up pictures of Saturn? NASA tries to imagine that this boondoggle was about the potential for life out there but it won't be life we can talk to, or do anything with. It is more about preserving NASA and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Nothing does better at keeping people together than tax payer money.
This Billion is like the money we spend to keep tanks, airplanes, helicopters and ships being built when nobody wants them anymore. In order to keep the assembly lines open and the people working, Congress buys more of something we don't need or want. We sent 5 probes to Saturn at various times and if there is life up there, they must be wondering where all the traffic is coming from. Congress wants to send two more of them up there, spending 200+ million for the preliminary steps to plan it. No wonder our deficit is so high. Doesn't anyone on the Hill know how to say NO?
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