http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2008/05/alternative_boondoggles.html
An interesting article on other ways that we could’ve spent the money that has been dumped into the war in Iraq. Send 510 astronauts to begin colonization on Mars; eliminate the world’s carbon footprint in one stroke by a global switch to nuclear energy; housing in China for 600 million people – I haven’t even gone through all of the comments yet, but any of these sound more worthwhile to me…