If Neptune were analogized with a Chevy Impala in mass, then how big is pluto compared to that? Pluto would be a matchbox car sitting on the curb.

I believe that the manned space program can engage the public by advancing the space frontier. Every next mission takes you farther out in space than you were before, either technologically or in terms of distance.

It's progress I think, that science has joined philosophy, metaphysics & religion as subjects drunk people argue about in bars.

We need to look at NASA, not as a handout, but as an investment.

People like death and mayhem.

Like a snowplow in overdrive, a supernova shockwave might sweep away any gas clouds in its path.

Kids are born curious about the world. What adults primarily do in the presence of kids is unwittingly thwart the curiosity of children.