The world today is such a wicked place.
Fighting going on between the human race.
People got to work just to earn their bread.
While people just across the sea are counting their dead.
A politician's job they say is very high. 'Cos he has to choose who's got to go and die. They can put a man on the moon quite easy, While people here on earth are dying of old diseases.
A woman goes to work every day after day. She just goes to work just to earn her pay. Child sitting crying by a life that's harder. He doesn't even know who is his father.
- Black Sabbath's "Wicked World" (1970)
I'm a fan of manned spaceflight and exploration (slash finding a high availability arrangement for life from Earth). However, I believe we have more pressing matters to tend at the moment. In the meantime, it seems we need more Encyclopedists. ;-)