Note 1: This entry is featured in the 32nd Tangled Bank science blog carnival
. Note2 : I suppose you can think of this as third in a series of Deep Impact posts. It may be the last one for a while, but this mission has made me do a lot of thinking, so I reserve the right to keep writing! I get a lot of questions from people asking why we should fund space travel. There are lots of answers to that, including the obvious (to me, at least) points about how our lives are much, much better due to the exploration of space (think for a moment what things would be like right now without satellite technology; tech that was developed by-- surprise-- the space program), what we've learned about the Universe, what we've learned about the Sun and how it affects us (directly and hugely, including causing ...
