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Perhaps The Best Motivation For Going To Mars Is Political. It Is Obvious That No Single Nation Currently Has Either The Will Or The Resources To Do It Alone, But A Consortium Of Nations And Space Agencies Could Achieve It Within 20 Years.

Science Can Proceed Only If The Scientist Adopts An Essentially Theological Worldview. ..even The Most Atheistic Scientist Accepts As An Act Of Faith The Existence Of A Law-like Order In Nature That Is At Least In Part Comprehensible To Us.

I Always Look On The Black Side Of Life. That Way, You Won't Be Disappointed And I'm Cheerful If It Doesn't Work Out. I'm A Cheerful Pessimist.

In 1911 The Little Town Of Nakhla In Egypt Was The Scene Of One Of The Most Remarkable Events In Historym When A Chunk Of Rock Fell From The Sky And Killed A Dog. This Is The Only Known Canine Fatality Caused By A Cosmic Object. Improbably Though This Encounter Was Already, Its Truly Extraordinary Nature Was Revealed Only Decades Later When Scientists Found That The Culprit Was Not A Common-or-garden Meteorite, But A Piece Of The Planet Mars.

The Eerie Silence: Are We Alone In The Universe?