We should be looking to use our resources to protect life on earth, plus it would cost a fraction of the proposed lunar mission.

CNN: Space's threat to civilization

Since 2001 Railroad Earth has been playing bluegrass plus snatches of rock, folk, and jazz with the same open armed, occasionally long-winded approach that's helped jam bands like Phish and the String Cheese Incident earn throngs of rabid fans.

NPR: Railroad Earth Jams Live on Two-CD 'Elko'

However the results of the investigation conducted at the end of 2008 reveal that vast majority of the Earth scientists surveyed agree that in the past 200-plus years, mean global temperatures have been rising and that human activity is a significant contributing factor in changing mean global temperatures.

CNN: Surveyed scientists agree global warming is real

On the plus side, the ability to directly detect light from a planet closer to the size of Earth than a Jupiter-sized gas giant is a positive step forward in our ability to learn more about planets that might be habitable.

FORBES: NASA Detects The Light Of A 'Super-Earth'