Not Bad For Jumped-up Apes…

I know that I come across as a misanthrope – gawd knows that as a species we do enough bad things to make that almost inescapable as my response to things. But then, every now and then, something happens to make me feel proud to be a hairless ape. This time it’s not in the area of morality or of helping relieve the burden of fellow-apes. It’s in the area of pure science – what’s out there, why is the universe the way it is – and so forth. Look at these pictures of the surface of Mars and think about the implications, That’s something to take a teensy bit of pride in. Next up, let’s find a cure for AIDS and stop global warming…