I LOVE Scott Fitzgerald! Love his house in Minn. He's Minn's Ernest Hemingway.

Good quotes, thanks! "One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise."

Exactly.

[Anywho, it's not wrong, per se, to rate space exploration lower than #1 on humanity's To Do list. I want to see it continue (and I think Bowser's made it clear he does too), but it's impossible to deny that we have a great many other pressing issues right under our nose. And frankly, if it comes down to going back to the moon, or feeding hungry kids, the moon can wait.]

I guess what I've been trying to say is that there is a place for everyone and for everyone a place. Be it for those that help, which I think we all do in one form or another, some more than others. Needs can be met without sacrificing people's rights, which is, afterall what most of us want anyways, right?

As for going back to the Moon. I was against it in the beginning, but now I think that it may be a good testing ground for Mars afterall. No, I don't think we should be putting too much money and manpower on the moon right now, but it would be a good testing ground.

My two cents.