Land On Mars, A Round-trip Ticket -

The Primary Means Of Energy Generation Is Going To Solar. It Will At Least Be A Plurality, And Probably Be A Slight Majority In The Long Term.

You Shouldn't Do Things Differently Just Because They're Different. They Need To Be... Better.

The Lessons Of History Would Suggest That Civilisations Move In Cycles. You Can Track That Back Quite Far - The Babylonians, The Sumerians, Followed By The Egyptians, The Romans, China. We're Obviously In A Very Upward Cycle Right Now And Hopefully That Remains The Case. But It May Not.

It Is Despairing To Consider That The Cost And Reliability Of Access To Space Have Barely Changed Since The Apollo Era Over Three Decades Ago. Yet In Virtually Every Other Field Of Technology, We Have Made Great Strides In Reducing Cost And Increasing Capability.

My Mentality Is That Of A Samurai. I Would Rather Commit Seppuku Than Fail.