At 03:48 PM 06/01/2006, CW wrote:
>I have no problems with "blue sky" research, the idea of following up even
>the wildest of theoretical ideas to see if they have any viability. Even
>if totally wrong, the work that would be done would provide research;
>reminds me of something a physicist once told me: even if you fall on
>your face, you're six feet closer to where you want to go.
I like that. Thomas Edison failed hundreds of times to create a light bulb
and when asked if the failures discouraged him, he said something like
"They aren't failures. I have succeeded in proving that those methods
don't work."
I hope they go for it. I'd love to spend a week on Mars or go for a cruise
around Jupiter.
Of course if the FTL component works, things will get weird.
Returning from a trip to find you didn't leave due to rescheduling.
Returning from a longer trip to find the last election turned out different than you remember (no I don't have tickets).
Even longer trip, come back to a North America that never left Britain...
