I'm A Silicon Valley Guy. I Just

It Would Take Six Months To Get To Mars If You Go There Slowly, With Optimal Energy Cost. Then It Would Take Eighteen Months For The Planets To Realign. Then It Would Take Six Months To Get Back, Though I Can See Getting The Travel Time Down To Three Months Pretty Quickly If America Has The Will.

It's Not As Though We Can Keep Burning Coal In Our Power Plants. Coal Is A Finite Resource, Too. We Must Find Alternatives, And It's A Better Idea To Find Alternatives Sooner Then Wait Until We Run Out Of Coal, And In The Meantime, Put God Knows How Many Trillions Of Tons Of Co2 That Used To Be Buried Underground Into The Atmosphere.

One Bit Of Advice: It Is Important To View Knowledge As Sort Of A Semantic Tree - Make Sure You Understand The Fundamental Principles, Ie The Trunk And Big Branches, Before You Get Into The Leaves/details Or There Is Nothing For Them To Hang On To.

What I'm Trying To Do Is, Is To Make A Significant Difference In Space Flight. And Help Make Space Flight Accessible To Almost Anyone.

It's Just Mind-blowingly Awesome. I Apologize, And I Wish I Was More Articulate, But It's Hard To Be Articulate When Your Mind's Blown-but In A Very Good Way.