Exploring Space Makes You Safer

If the way to a man’s heart is through his stomach, maybe the same holds true when influencing his mind. That’s one of the paths Dr. Phil Metzger took when he read yet another writer dismissing space exploration as a waste of time and money. “The cost of the food that Americans throw away every year is 31 times more than all the funding we give to NASA—31 times,” he said. The latest flashpoint came in an opinion piece in The Guardian with the giveaway title, “Revive the US space program? How about not.” “I disagree with the writer’s ridiculous…...