Congress hears options for asteroid defense: Pay now or pray later

[Warren DeMontague]

22. Think so.

I just look around; I know from certain traditional space exploration standpoints, it seems like we've been in limbo for 40 years... still, the difference in distance between LEO and the moon, is huge. Between the Moon and Mars, even more exponentially huge.

And yet, here we are, we've discovered something like 700 exoplanets, we have sent spacecraft to every real planet in the Solar System (sorry Pluto, but you're still next, at least after Ceres- which I am actually pretty curious to see) our knowledge of the universe is growing by leaps and bounds and the visionaries are doing what we sci-fi nerds always dreamed the visionaries would do.. I look at a guy like Elon Musk and I think, wow.

I think it's a VERY cool time to be alive.