Defending the high cost of space exploration

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Ever needed any verbal ammunition to argue in favour of spending huge amounts of money on space exploration? Probably not - but space agency chiefs have to do it all the time. With capitalism in crisis, health care costs soaring...img width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.newscientist.com/c/749/f/10898/s/2043d91/mf.gif' border='0'/div class='mf-viral'table border='0'trtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/sendemail2.html?title=http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/shortsharpscience/2008/10/defending-the-high-cost-of-spa.html?feedId=space_rss20link=Defending the high cost of space exploration" target="_blank"img src="http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/emailthis2.gif" border="0" //a/tdtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/bookmark.cfm?title=http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/shortsharpscience/2008/10/defending-the-high-cost-of-spa.html?feedId=space_rss20link=Defending the high cost of space exploration" target="_blank"img src="http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/bookmark.gif" border="0" //a/td/tr/table/div

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