Absolutely.  This was dumb, and quite frankly a cynical bread-and-circus idea in the first place.  There was <i>never</i> any meaningful scientific justification for the project (nor the Mars one that was announced simultaneously).<p>Although the grandparent post is right: relative to other wastes in our government (the Iraq war being by far the biggest discretionary one), this is small potatoes.  But $8B is $8B, and it means it doesn't have to be cut elsewhere.