The Earth is 4.54 × 10 to the 9th in age. That's 4.54 BILLION years old. We are living in a whispers breath of time in comparison to "The Great Mother's" age.
These folks, while well intentioned remind me of the late 60's and WHY, (though it was cool to live through), we had any business on the moon..we CAN'T live there!
I agree with Mike, their motivation is monetary, if not in fame and fortune then a lifetimes worth of Government Grants (welfare for Scientists) to study something that's interesting. In reality, we all reside in a locker at the airport, praying to the illumination of a cheap Casio watch waiting for Tom Lee Jones to come rescue us from ourselves....
