Is this really a surprise? When I left teaching 20 years ago (has it really been that long?), most of my students would have been bored watching porn after three days.

After Apollo 11, national interest in the space program dropped like a brick. The public took on the attitude of "been there, done that, so why keep spending money on a couple hundred pounds of rocks?"

CNN once had a pretty good aerospace department, but it was disbanded when management figured out that rehashing the death of JonBennet Ramsey sold more ads than repairing the Hubble Space Telescope.