Maybe it is too late

Saw this on the Guardian website this morning.

"Space is no longer for power and prestige; it's truly for economic benefit," the Apollo 11 flight director Eugene Kranz said. "The technology that emerges from high-risk, high-profile, extremely difficult missions is the technology that will keep the economic engine of our nation continuing to go through the years."

If lunatic scientists lead us into believing that we can solve our problems by screwing up other planets, then we really will have gone too far, literally and metaphorically. When will we ever learn? Too late?