Money Well Spent?

NASA set to launch first spacecraft to Pluto - Space News - MSNBC.com

"Houston we have another colossal waste of money!"

"An unmanned NASA spacecraft the size of a piano is set to lift off Tuesday on a nine-year journey to Pluto, the last unexplored planet in the solar system.

The $700 million New Horizons mission also will study the surrounding Kuiper Belt, the mysterious zone of the solar system that is believed to hold thousands of comets and other icy objects. It could hold clues to how the planets were formed."

$700 million dollars?!?! I'm sorry but for $700 million dollars you better not be coming back simply with "clues" to how the planets were formed! I think I speak for everyone when I say that at a pricetag that high I expect NASA to wrap this mystery up faster than Scooby Doo and the gang figure out that old man Bowers the inn keeper is also the abominable snowman trying to scare tourists away from his secret hidden gold mines, which nobody knew were there in the first place.