RE: We can dare to dream of the stars again, if only we can achieve this small thing.
May 16, 2012 at 4:32 pm
http://www.xkcd.com/893/
"The universe is probably littered with the one-planet graves of cultures which made the sensible economic decision that there's no good reason to go into space--each discovered, studied, and remembered by the ones who made the irrational decision."