RE: Space shuttle's finale puts space industrial base at risk, says aerospace executive
We as a country are losing our intellectual drive. Both grown ups and young people don't want to think. Just give me my iPad and let Twitter and Facebook. Pretty soon the US will be full of fat slugs lying on our cots consuming media content like the spaceship passengers in Wall-E.
If we as a nation don't aspire to more then slug-dom we'll fade into obscurity.