There's no such thing as Space Money, amigos

According to every news outlet on planet Earth currently, NASA has made an astonishing discovery. There was just recently found what is said to be "significant amounts of water" on our moon. For decades us Earthlings have pondered about not just the moon's significance but what that moon could do for us. After the landings in the late 20th century, we stopped caring and moved onto more important things- celebrity news and sex tapes. But now we've explored deeper into our luna and found that in fact, there might be more that can be taken. Offering not heat, light or warmth like the sun, that good-for-nothing moon's been us there mocking us for millenia, it's time it contributes something to society.

Well now that moon has finally paid up, by offering some water. CNN aired an interview this week with Jim Garvin of NASA, who confirmed that yes, there is up to 60 gallons of water on the its freeloading surface- in frozen form of course . This is comparable to "the driest of deserts on the Earth".
The LCROSS impact brought back thoughts not just of aquatic oasis' on the moon, but also the obvious reaction: who cares? What good is that to us people who barely even have time to admire it's beauty? $79 million dollars seems like a small budget for a space exploration project, and in reality it is. It was deemed one of the least expensive space projects in history. But the gain is not worth it. There is nothing that the moon can offer us except a series of tides and an alluring glow at 3 am. Sure it's interesting dinner table talk, but really, the information could be done without. Use that rocket science to figure out a way to prevent the freshwater shortage on Earth. Or how to feed the roughly billions malnourished people in the world. It's like playing with the world's most expensive legos for a living, making a model airplane. It's fun, it's fluff, it's whipped cream. This is no economy for whipped cream.
Similar questions were answered in the CNN interview, simply "What do we care?". With no regard to the smirk that implied "Nothing, I guess", there was talk of more scientific theory in textbooks. There's nothing wrong with knowledge, but space exploration is too lavish a luxury to be throwing money into. It's a blackhole. In order to discover a usefulness to be put to work, billions of dollars more must be invested. Let's just concentrate on our planet. It's a slap in the face to those who can't pay their bills, own a car, or find a decent job that they're money is somehow being contributed to finding 60 gallons of water on the moon- the most frivilous knowledge available.
I am certainly not bashing scientific discovery- it is the most useful of information available on planet Earth; let's just leave the moon out of it. Prioritize people! It isn't rocket science!