The Quote of the Day from the inimitable Tam. Here’s the full flavor:
“But Tam,” you say “We’ve already mapped the moon! We’re playing with R/C model cars on Mars!“
Yes, but after we mapped the moon and hit a few golf balls around up there, we just turned our back on the whole thing. Scrapped our huge boosters. Used an outdated, overengineered flying garbage truck as a make-work program for NASA and a pork conveyor for incumbent congressweasels. Got in the way of private progress with government interference that would have strapped airbags on the Wright Flyer and prevented them from flying at Kitty Hawk lest they wound some rare sand flea.