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.

You Want To Do Things You’re Passionate About But Also Are Useful To Other People.

I Read Books And Talked To People. I Mean That's Kind Of How One Learns Anything. There's Lots Of Great Books Out There & Lots Of Smart People.

The Space Shuttle Was Often Used As An Example Of Why You Shouldn't Even Attempt To Make Something Reusable. But One Failed Experiment Does Not Invalidate The Greater Goal. If That Was The Case, We'd Never Have Had The Light Bulb.

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.