A couple thoughts about the tsunami's and the new year

[Raptor]

I should really stop reading CNN. With the huge financial burdens of Tsunamis and the war etc, somehow our brilliant government thinks it is worthwhile to spend 330 million to send a spacecraft 80 million miles away to crash into an asteroid so they can see what happens. If they even catch the stupid thing, how productive is it? They want to know if it has ice inside etc. I am sure there is some benefit to them in some way, but is it really a justification to spend that much cash.