It's Hard That's Why!

I just saw on someone's blog the following question: "We've been to the moon, but we still can't cure the common cold?!" To which I want to say (but didn't, so will here) - look, it's obviously a lot harder to create some kind of "cure" for the common cold than it is to put a man on the moon. You think just because you put the word "common" in front of it, that makes it easy?

Or maybe it's that we don't put more resources into solving the problem of the common cold because the benefit to society of doing so are not enough to justify how much time and money it'd take. All the time and money we'd spend on solving the common cold is time and money we wouldn't spend putting people on the fracking moon or figuring out some other important deal! Dadgummit I'm mad and yelling!