On Jan 27, 2010, at 11:38 AM, Adam Heath wrote: > David E Jones wrote: >> On Jan 27, 2010, at 11:28 AM, Adam Heath wrote: >> >>> Adrian Crum wrote: >>>> We had pretty good success putting a man on the Moon, but our success rate >>>> getting a probe to Mars is about 50 percent. So, is the separation of the >>>> framework the Moon or Mars? >>> apples to oranges. We haven't attempted to put a man on mars. >> >> If anyone is seriously considering a manned mission to Mars I'd be >> interested in participating, even if that means just helping it to fail as >> spectacularly as possible. ;) > > Are you saying that you want to escape from everyone else still here > on earth? What, are we not good enough for you?
I never expected the mission to actually leave the ground. My intention is the purest around: to get paid to be involved with an abject failure. There is no reason to get frustrated or upset by failures. These days I like to look at failures as a refreshing way to introduce changes in ones life and in a very zen way move away from stress caused by an excess of responsibility and toward the peace that we all want so badly in life. So no, I'm not trying to escape, just want to be involved with adding some measure of peace to a chaotic and difficult world. Peace through failure... I wonder if that would make a good political platform? I guess peace through dead people and/or theft of time and money from the populace (with only threats of making more dead people) is far more compatible with the current political environment. What that means for the here and now is... oh wait... I should have picked a goal for my argument before making assertions. Nevermind. -David
