Shootin' rockets at fish

I'm all for the space program. I think its cool as hell and certainly worth our monumental investments. That doesn't change the fact that we threw 8 years of development and $273 MILLION on a satellite designed to monitor how carbon enters and exits our atmosphere into the ocean just south of the arctic circle.

Rocket with NASA global warming satellite crashes(ap)

Accidents will happen. And sometimes it will cost millions of dollars and a decade of government work.

THIS is whyipaytaxes.