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A Bush on Mars?
The Signal ^ | 04/16/07 | Steve Lunetta

Posted on 04/18/2007 7:38:17 PM PDT by KevinDavis

A group of bricklayers was working together on a project. The first worker was asked what he was doing. "Laying bricks." A second was queried and responded "building this wall here." The third was asked the same question. "Building a cathedral" was his response.

This classic story illustrates a simple but true point. The last bricklayer had a vision for what needed to be accomplished. His leader had given him something that the other two sorely lacked: an objective that placed all of his work into context and gave him a reason to move forward.

A concrete vision inspires men to reach beyond what they are normally capable of doing and accomplish tasks that in other contexts would be unthinkable. A vision is the mark of great leadership.

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TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: bush; mars; space
Man needs to reach higher and farther to accomplish the impossible.
1 posted on 04/18/2007 7:38:18 PM PDT by KevinDavis
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2 posted on 04/18/2007 7:39:14 PM PDT by KevinDavis (Man needs to reach higher and farther to accomplish the impossible.)
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HE HAS THE VISION THING, ALRIGHT. Those mired in class warfare since 1850 resent it.


3 posted on 04/18/2007 8:10:20 PM PDT by ClaireSolt (Have you have gotten mixed up in a mish-masher?)
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Agreed....


4 posted on 04/18/2007 8:38:36 PM PDT by KevinDavis (Man needs to reach higher and farther to accomplish the impossible.)
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To: KevinDavis

To the red planet we go.


5 posted on 04/18/2007 9:52:59 PM PDT by pissant
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As of April 10, the Spirit rover had covered about 7,092.29 meters (4.41 miles), after having been on Mars since January 2004. The Apollo 17 astronauts covered roughly the same distance in the course of an afternoon. Robots make great assistants, but they will not replace us.
6 posted on 04/19/2007 6:17:00 AM PDT by jmcenanly (Cowards take hostages. We do not.)
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However, the astronauts spent fewer hours collectively than just one of the rovers; the money involved in just one manned mission to Mars, robotic surface probes with various kinds of sensors and experiments could study the entire planet.


7 posted on 04/19/2007 10:09:49 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (I last updated my profile on Monday, April 18, 2007. https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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